Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film
- Submitting institution
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The University of West London
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 34026
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-90332-3
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- ISBN
- 9783319903316
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This edited collection is the first to intersect the fields of documentary and cognitive studies. Brylla was the project’s initiator and principal editor, overseeing the commissioning and review of the international contributions. He also co-authored the introduction and authored one of the chapters. Emerging discourses in media and cultural studies have acknowledged that audiences live in a mass-mediated culture that filters reality through the prism of documentaries. However, the audience’s emotional and cognitive responses have largely remained unexplored in these disciplines. Thus, Brylla has identified the following research aims, which have informed the project’s conception and development: (1) to demonstrate that cognitive theory represents an invaluable tool for film scholars and practitioners to comprehend the documentary’s implications within a psychological and wider socio-cultural context; (2) to map the reasons for the ossified divisions that have historically inhibited a substantial convergence between documentary and cognitive studies, and to establish an impetus that highlights the compatibility of the two scholarly fields; (3) to highlight the efficiency of contemporary cognitive methods (e.g. 4EA) to analyse classical, as well as modern documentary forms that challenge the notions of factuality and objectivity. In this sense, the book also aims to explore the permeable boundary between fiction and documentary. The introduction discusses these three aims and establishes the main paradigm for commissioning and reviewing the contributions: The pragmatic-cognitive study of documentary production, reception and exhibition by building bridges between the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities, as well as between theory and practice-led-research. For instance, Brylla’s chapter uses a social-cognition approach to examine the relationship between the often conflated ‘social’ and ‘narrative’ stereotypes in relation to disability. Demonstrated in his own practice, he develops the plotting technique of modular fragments that aims to deconstruct the perceived ‘otherness’ of disabled people.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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