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PROGRAMME

FROM 12:00 CHECK-IN IN THE OLD LIBRARY (101)

13:00 - 13:10 WELCOME BY THE CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS (110)

13:15 - 14:00 Torben GrodalAudience Bonding: Viewing as ri-tuals of emotional bonding among

András Bálint Kovács Predictability of Interpretation: The Role of the Analysis of the Causal Structures of Film Narratives

Katalin Bálint, Miruna Doicaru & Ed S. Tan Anatomy of suspense: dissecting a case of the film experience

14:00 - 14:45 Robert Blanchet Empathy as Looking at a Character’s Situation from the Perspective of his Concerns, as Opposed to Mine: an Alternative Account of Empathic Perspective Shifting in the Cinema

William BrownThe Question of Time in Film Studies

Karin BadtSeeking and Film Suspense

14:45 - 15:30 Susanne Schmetkamp The Importance of Moods and Expressiveness for the Cinematic Experience

Birger LangkjærTime travels and the problem of causality: Back to the Future (1985) and Looper (2011)

Keith BoundThe role of micro-narratives in the production of cinematic suspense in Transmedia thriller story worlds

15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE

16:00 - 16:45 James E. Cutting,Catalina Iricinschi& Kaitlin L. BrunickMapping Narrative Space in Holly-wood Films

Malcolm TurveyEvolutionary Psychology, Aesthe-tics and Film

Jelena Rosic& Pia TikkaAnnotation of film content for a neurocinematic analysis: Implica-tions for embodied approaches to filmmaking

16:45 - 17:30 Alexa Weik von MossnerA Cognitive Approach to Emotion and Cinematic Environment

Ben SingerPerceptual Simplicity and Comple-xity in Film: Competing Evolutiona-ry Aesthetics

17:30 - 18:00 COFFEE

FROM 18:00 ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BERLIN UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS / CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION (110)

TIME SLOT ROOM 158 ROOM 110 ROOM 004

WEDNESDAYJUNE 12

09:00 - 09:45 Maarten Coëgnarts& Peter Kravanja Embodied Meaning in Cinema

Joseph G. KickasolaSynesthesia and Cross-Modality: Lessons for Film Theory and Aesthetics

Bohdan Y. Nebesio Editing in Soviet Montage Theory: A Cognitivist Perspective

09:45 - 10:30 Charles Forceville & Julius Koetsier Embodied identity in werewolf films of the 1980s

Luis Rocha AntunesThermoception in film – Knut Erik Jensen and the aesthetics of cold

Markus Kuhn& Maike Sarah ReinerthToward an Interdisciplinary Approach to Representations of Subjectivity in Audiovisual Media

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE

11:00 - 11:45 Emre ÇağlayanThe Aesthetics of Boredom: Slow Cinema and the Virtues of the Long Take

Katherine Spring& Patrick FaubertElectronic dance music in film: a cognitivist perspective

11:45 - 12:30 KEYNOTE BY PETER WUSS: TOWARDS A CORE MODEL OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE (158)

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 14:45 Julian HanichWhat we are afraid of when we are scared at the movies

Lewis J. Baker& Daniel T. LevinSpatial Discontinuities in Film Increase Awareness of Scene Properties

Lennard Højbjerg Style and Body Language in the Moving Image

14:45 - 15:30 Rikke SchubartIn Her Skin: Horror and Disgust as Gendered Emotional Experience in Dans ma peau (2002), Martyrs (2008), and Black Swan (2010)

Miklós Kiss& Steven WillemsenThe Attractiveness of Cognitive Dissonance: taming paradoxes, ambiguities, and incoherencies in complex movies

15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE

16:00 - 16:45 Carl PlantingaIs Cognitive Cultural Studies Possible?

Anne BartschMoved to Think. The Role of Emotional Movie Experiences in Stimulating Reflective Thoughts

Patrick Keating Camera Movement as Form, Style, and Representation

16:45 - 17:30 Jeff SmithFilmmakers as Folk Psychologists: The Role of Confirmation Bias in Film Characterization, Narration, and Spectatorship

Tony E. Jackson Mirrors in Minds: Social Neurosci-ence meets Black Swan

Anne Gjelsvik What is in a Close-up? Cinematic closeness and ethical encounters

FROM 19:00 SPECIAL EVENT (T+T): GUIDED TOUR IN BERLIN-KREUZBERG TO VISIT THE PLACES WHERE THE WALL STOOD

THURSDAYJUNE 13


09:00 - 09:45 Tim J. Smith& Janet Yvonne Martin-Por-tugues SantacreuTesting AToCC: The role of motion and audio in limiting awareness of Match-on-Action cuts

Trevor Ponech& Paisley LivingstonMoralism, immoralism, and the cinema of transgression

Felix Schröter Of Fictional Beings, Game Pieces and Avatars: Toward a Cognitive Theory of Game Characters

09:45 - 10:30 Marko RojnićGaze cueing of attention as an empirical explanation for cut moti-vation in point-of-view editing?

Dirk EitzenMoral Education through Movies: Fact or Fiction?

Alberto J. L. Carrillo Canán, Victor G. Rivas López & May Zindel Media, Illusion and Virtual Reality

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE

11:00 - 11:45 Andreas Gregersen The dance of agenthood and pati-enthood: Sequential analysis and the structure of action in Mickey’s Fire Brigade and Clock Cleaners

Jason GendlerExposition in Narrative Cinema

Jason Mittell Complex Television and Serial Narrative Comprehension

11:45 - 12:30 Sennay Ghebreab, Torben Grodal, Talma Hendler et al. Automatic Video AnnoTation using Dynamic Audience Response How Movies Move Us?

Todd BerlinerFinding the Fit in Hollywood Story-telling: Shifting Story Logic in Red River and Other Classical Cinema

László Tarnay Thought and the Sensorium in Contemporary Visual Culture

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 14:45 Barbara FlueckigerAnalog vs. Digital – The Emotional Impact of Film Recording Processes on the Audience

Special Event (T+T): Interactive narrative experiences with the 3D installation “Virtuelle Mauer/Re-Constructing the Wall”

14:45 - 15:30 Daniel Barratt& Anna Cabak RédeiDoes the Kuleshov effect really exist? Revisiting a classic film experiment on facial expressions and emotional contexts

Guan Soon KhooReflection and time heal all wounds: Catharsis through cine-matic drama for individuals with remote life events


15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE

16:00 - 16:45 Johannes Riis On the Role of Historical Norms in Film Performances: Constraints in the trade-off between voluntary and emotional components

Erwin FeyersingerVisual Abstraction, Schemas, and the Success of Animation



16:45 - 17:30 Yuri Tsivian & Daria Khitrova Cinemetrics Looks at Acting: Cross-cutting and Cross-action

Paul TaberhamBottom-Up processing, Entoptic Vision and the Innocent Eye

18:00 DISCUSSION OF THE PROJECT “VIRTUELLE MAUER/RECONSTRUCTING THE WALL” WITH THE ARTISTS (158)


FRIDAYJUNE 14

09:00 - 09:45 Dan FloryRace and Imaginative Resistance in Film

Nitzan Ben Shaul Disentangling Rashomon

Thomas SchickDifferential qualities, affective fields: Art cinema and affective experience

09:45 - 10:30 Sermin Ildırar& Stephan SchwanThe role of different types of links between shots on comprehension by film illiterate viewers

Catalina Iricinschi& Jacob FriedmanParsing puzzle films: Narrative content or perceptual salience?

Janina WildfeuerTrumpets and orange-coloured days — Inferences, associations and synaesthesia in filmic text

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE

11:00 - 11:45 Arthur P. ShimamuraMultimodal Influences on Atten-tion Across Film Edits: An Empirical Analysis

Mario SluganThe Near-Absence of Controlling Fictional Narrators in Film

Mark WardArt in noise: an Embodied Simula-tion account of cinematic sound design

11:45 - 12:30 Stephan Schwan,Bärbel Garsoffky, & Caroline WirthTime leaps in films influence the level of mental construal of events

Casper TybjergFirst-Person History: How Films Shape Historical Consciousness

Johan-Magnus ElvemoSpatial Perception and Diegesis in Multi-Channel Surround Cinema

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 14:45 Murray SmithTruth, Truthfulness and Non-fiction Filmmaking

Henry BaconCognitive and historical aspects in developing methods for compara-tive analysis of film style

Rory KellyTimings and Turning Points in Mainstream Plot Structure

14:45 - 15:30 Margrethe Bruun VaageToken and type verisimilitude

Sergei FilippovLife-Size on the Screen: The New Data on the Alternative System of Space Perception in the Flat Visual Arts and the Perception in the Early Cinema

Henriette HeidbrinkPower, Moral, Reason – An Empiri-cal Study on Character Traits and Narrative Plots

15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE

16:00 - 17:00 FELLOW MEETING (110)

19:00 - 22:00 BOAT TRIP THROUGH THE CITY CENTRE („BRÜCKENFAHRT“)


SATURDAYJUNE 15

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