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The Close-Up: Studies of Cinematic Attention, Emotion,

and Intersubjectivity

Maria Falconetti as Jeanne/Joan in La passion de Jeanne d'Arc/The Passion of Joan of Arc

(Carl Theodor Dreyer, France 1928)
'The close-up has objectified in our world of perception our mental act of attention and by it has furnished art with a means
which far transcends the power of any theatre stage', Hugo Mnsterberg, The Photoplay: A Psychological Study (1916), p.
56
'Good close-ups are lyrical; it is the heart, not the eye, that has perceived them', Bla Balzs, Theory of the Film in
Gerald Mast & Marshall Cohen (ed), Film Theory and Criticism, Oxford: Oxford Uni Press (1979), pp. 288-298. p. 289
'[T]he close-up does not tear away its object from a set of which it would form part, of which it would be a part, but on the
contrary, it abstracts it from all spatio-temporal co-ordinates, that is to say it raises it to the state of Entity', Gilles Deleuze,
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1986,
pp. 95-96
'[T]he space of the narrative, the diegesis, is constructed by a multiplicity of shots that vary in terms of both size and
angle- hence this space exists nowhere; there is no totality of which the close up could be a part', Mary Ann Doane, 'The
Close Up: Scale and Detail in the Cinema', differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, September 22, 2003 p. 108

Film Studies For Free gets inexorably drawn in to, and then engulfed by, the close-up today.
In other words, it brings you lots of links to high quality and openly-accessible scholarly or
critical studies of the history and theory of this particular cinematic (and televisual) shotchoice and its reception.

Daniel Barratt, 'Tracing the Routes to Empathy: Association, Simulation, or Appraisal?',

Film Studies, Issue 8, Summer 2006

David Bordwell, 'Three Nights of a Dreamer', Observations on Film Art, November 5,

2007

David Bordwell, 'What happens between shots happens between your ears',
Observations of Film Art, February 4, 2007

Jinhee Choi, 'Naturalizing Hollywood?: Against the Naturalistic Account of Filmic

Communication [on Nol Carrolls Engaging the Moving Image]', Film Studies, Issue 8,
Summer 2006

The Close-up Blog-a-thon (Oct. 12-21, 2007) at the House Next Door (great index to
numerous brilliant blog posts on the close-up, from Matt Zoller Seitz)

Amy Coplan, 'Catching Characters Emotions: Emotional Contagion Responses to

Narrative Fiction Film', Film Studies, Issue 8, Summer 2006 (See also Murray Smith,
'Empathy and the Extended Mind', University of Kent, Aesthetic Research Group
Seminar Series 2006-7 Research Papers)

Mark Cousins, 'Cinematic truth lies in the close-up', Prospect Magazine, Issue 99, June
2004
Therese Davis, The face on the screen: death, recognition and spectatorship (London:
Intellect, 2004) (Google Books Limited Preview)
Gilles Deleuze, 'The Affection-image: Face and Close-up', Cinema 1: The MovementImage. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P,
1986 (Google Books Limited Preview)
Mary Ann Doane, 'Scale and the Negotiation of Real and Unreal Space in the
Cinema', NTU Studies in Language and Literature, Number 20 (December 2008), 1-38
(scroll down in pdf)
Mary Ann Doane, 'The Close Up: Scale and Detail in the Cinema', differences: A
Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, September 22, 2003(excerpt free online)
Jens Eder, 'Ways of Being Close to characters', Film Studies, Vol. 8, Summer 2006
Kiminori Fukaya, 'On Beckett's Film: Close-up, the Affection-Image, and Comedians ',
Bulletin of the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Toyama, Vol. 3, February 2009
Brian Gallagher, 'Some Historical Reflections on the Paradoxes of Stardom in the
American Film Industry, 1910-1960', Part 4: The Close Up, Images Journal, Issue 3,
Ora Gelley, 'Europa 51: The Face of the Star in Neorealisms Urban Landscape', Film
Studies, Issue 5, Winter 2004
Sri Kusumo Habsari, 'Fighting Bodies: The Construction of the Female Body in an
Indonesian Television Serial', Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the
Pacific, Issue 19, February 2009
James Hansen, 'Emphasis on the Close-up: Reygadas's Diegetics', Out1, March5,
2008
Pepita Hesselberth, 'It's about Time (Or Is It?) Warhol anno 2007', Apertra.
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Bruce D. Hutchinson, 'An Attention Model of Film Viewing, Journal of Moving Image
Studies, Fall 2003
Tarja Laine, 'Chapter 1: Intersubjectivity in Film Studies', in Shame and Desire:
Emotion, Intersubjectivity, Cinema (Peter Lang Publishing, 2007)
Johannes von Moltke, 'Sympathy for the Devil: Cinema, History, and the Politics of
Emotion', New German Critique 102, Vol. 34, No. 3, Fall 2007
Michael Z. Newman, 'Chapter 4: Emotion Expressions' in Characterization in American
Independent Cinema (PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005)
Michael Z. Newman, 'Characterization as Social Cognition in Welcome to the
Dollhouse', Film Studies, Issue 8, Summer 2006
Per Persson, 'Towards a Psychological Theory of Close-ups: Experiencing Intimacy and
Threat', Kinema, Spring 1998
Karen Renner, 'Repeat Viewings Revisited: Emotions, Memory, and Memento', Film
Studies, Issue 8, Summer 2006
Judith Roof, 'Close Encounters on Screen: Gender and the Loss of the Field', Genders
29, 1999
Maria Walsh, 'Review of The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition & Spectatorship
by Therese Davis (Bristol, UK & Portland: Intellect, 2004)', Scope, Issue 9, October
2007
Yale University Film Studies Program Film Analysis webpages, 'Cinematography',
August 27, 2002