Frank Kessler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Frank Kessler plays a role.
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2017 Chapter 6. “Spellbound in darkness”: Narrative absorption discussed by film theory Narrative Absorption, Hakemulder, Frank, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru (eds.), pp. 119–131 | Chapter
This contribution discusses various strands in classical and modern film theory that have tried to conceptualize the phenomenon of absorption. In the 1910’s already, several authors described the specific state the film spectator is in with a dream. This metaphor has been taken up in a variety of… read more