Neurofilmology. Audiovisual studies and the Challenge of Neurosciences

Over the last two decades, discoveries made in the field of cognitive neuroscience have begun to permeate humanities and social sciences. This special issue of Cinéma & Cie focuses on major conceptual and epistemo-logical arguments arising from the dialogue between audiovisual studies and neuro-sciences. In the context of this intersection, Neurofilmology is an interdisciplinary re-search program that arises at the encounter between two models of viewer: the viewer-as-mind (deriving from a cognitive/analytical approach), and the viewer-as-body (typical of the phenomenological/continental ap-proach). Accordingly, Neurofilmology fo-cuses on the viewer-as-organism, by inves-tigating with both empirical and speculative epistemological tools the subject of audio-visual experience, postulated as embodied, embedded, enacted, extended, emerging, affective and relational.