<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In this essay I analyse Matteo Garrone’s <italic>Tale of Tales</italic> (2015) within the perspective of embodied cognition. I consider film experience as an affective-conceptual phenomenon based on the viewer’s embodiment of the visual structures. Baruch Spinoza stands at the foundation of my analytical approach since his thought was based on the absolute parallelism between the body and the mind. This paradigm redefines anthropocentrism and rejects dualism; however, the criticism of the rationalist ideal is also one of the main characteristics of the film <italic>Tale of Tales</italic>: by staging baroque and excessive characters, it allows the viewer to embody a notion of subjectivity that is performative and relational. Therefore, by combining the cognitive analysis of the film with my theoretical framework I will present a radical criticism of abstract rationality and present an ecological idea of the human.</p></abstract>

In this essay I analyse Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales (2015) within the perspective of embodied cognition. I consider film experience as an affective-conceptual phenomenon based on the viewer’s embodiment of the visual structures. Baruch Spinoza stands at the foundation of my analytical approach since his thought was based on the absolute parallelism between the body and the mind. This paradigm redefines anthropocentrism and rejects dualism; however, the criticism of the rationalist ideal is also one of the main characteristics of the film Tale of Tales: by staging baroque and excessive characters, it allows the viewer to embody a notion of subjectivity that is performative and relational. Therefore, by combining the cognitive analysis of the film with my theoretical framework I will present a radical criticism of abstract rationality and present an ecological idea of the human.

”Let Man Remain Dead:” The Posthuman Ecology of <italic>Tale of Tales</italic>

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies

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”Let Man Remain Dead:” The Posthuman Ecology of 

In this essay I analyse Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales (2015) within the perspective of embodied cognition. I consider film experience as an...

”Let Man Remain Dead:” The Posthuman Ecology of Tale of Tales

Data publikacji: 16 paź 2018

Zakres stron: 53 - 68

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausfm-2018-0003

Słowa kluczowe
embodied cognition and cinema, sad passions, becoming-animal, posthuman, Spinoza

© 2018 Francesco Sticchi, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

”Let Man Remain Dead:” The Posthuman Ecology of Tale of Tales

Data publikacji: 16 paź 2018

Zakres stron: 53 - 68

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausfm-2018-0003

Słowa kluczoweembodied cognition and cinema, sad passions, becoming-animal, posthuman, Spinoza

© 2018 Francesco Sticchi, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
embodied cognition and cinema, sad passions, becoming-animal, posthuman, Spinoza