A Plea for Mise en Esprit

In this brief essay for the online journal „In Media Res“ I propose the concept of „mise en esprit“ as a companion term to „mise en scène“ for film studies. Mise en esprit refers to the phenomenon when, provoked by evocative aesthetics, our embodied mind complements mentally what a film affords us suggestively and thereby […]

Towards a Psychological Construct of Being Moved (Ko-Autor, Erst-Autor: Winfried Menninghaus).

Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Hanich, J., Wassiliwizky, E., Kuehnast, M. & Jacobsen, T.  In: PLoS ONE. 4. Juni 2015. S. 1-33 Link zum Artikel Abstrakt: The emotional state of being moved, though frequently referred to in both classical rhetoric and current language use, is far from established as a well-defined psychological construct. In a series of […]