Enactive Authorship: Second-Order Simulation of the Viewer Experience—A Neurocinematic Approach. Issue 1 (1st March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tikka, Pia
• Is Part Of: Projections. Volume 16:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 47
• Page End: 66
• Publication Date: 2022-03-01
• Subjects: author -- embodied simulation -- enactive cinema -- enactive mind -- intersubjectivity -- neurocinematics -- second-person perspective; Filmwetenschap; 791.4301
• DOI: 10.3167/proj.2022.160104
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1934-9688

Abstract

Abstract: The neurocinematic inquiry is extended in this article to the sparsely studied topic of the filmmaker ( author ) as an embodied agent. Departing from my concept of second-order authorship, and inspired by the second-person framework of intersubjectivity discussed by Michael Pauen and Vittorio Gallese, I propose a model in which the author simulates the viewer ( experient ) who further simulates the experience of the protagonist in the film. This chain of relations is described as enactive second-order simulation of the viewer experience. While the author does not have a direct key to influence the experient, there is a relation mediated by the protagonist's situatedness in the film's narrative context. I further trust the core assumption of the neurocinematic approach—namely, that film as a narrative medium provides a means to imitate contexts of life that condition the enactive simulation of both the author and the experient.