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The annual conference of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) welcomes you to the Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, June 11th – 14th, 2017

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Monday, June 12 • 14:30 - 15:00
SP Bregt Lameris. Colorful Depictions of Disgust in Cinematic Representations

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This talk will focus on the relationship between colors and disgust drawing on the analytical data gathered as part of the research project ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors. 

To represent and evoke disgust films need to translate the perception mode from an aesthetics of reception to a bodily aesthetics of immediate reaction. Disgusting materials such as feces, vomit, decaying food or corpses often share material properties that are located between a solid and liquid state. Based on the FilmColors database, the talk offers a diachronic overview on the way film colors have been functional in the (re)presentation of disgust.
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Bregt Lameris

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zurich
Bregt Lameris is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich, where she is engaged within the project 'ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors: Bridging the Gap Between Technology and Aesthetics'. Other research interests include color in silent cinema, the history of film... Read More →

Monday June 12, 2017 14:30 - 15:00 EEST
A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor) Runeberginkatu 14-16, Helsinki
  Room 301

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