The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier Historical Assessments and Phenomenological Expansions

Introduction, Every Theory Needs a Reference to Lived Experience: An Interview with Jean-Pierre Meunier, Part I: Jean-Pierre Meunier: The Structures of the Film Experience: Filmic Identification, Introduction, Part One: Introduction to the General Structures of Experience, Chapter I: Perception, I. The point of view of traditional psychology, II. The findings of phenomenology, Chapter II: Identification, I. The origins of the concept, II. Identification as the behavior of private intersubjectivity, III. The principal aspects of identification, IV. Fleeting and structuring identifications, V. Identification, projection, introjection, VI. Identification, mimicry and imitation, VII. Identification and personality, VIII. Identification, communication and information, Part Two: The Film Experience, Chapter I: Filmic Consciousness Faced with its Object, I. The film as an object of perception, II. Film, real and unreal, III. The imaginary consciousness, IV. The attitudes of filmic consciousness faced with its object, V. From the home movie to the fiction film VI. Movement, VII. Conclusion, List of Illustrations, List of Contributors