Attending to the phenomenological aspect of Fellini's visual style is crucial to understanding the compelling grip of his films as aesthetic objects.Īction execution-perception links (mirror mechanism) have been repeatedly suggested to play crucial roles in social cognition. Drawing on Gumbrecht's presence effect, and Gallese's embodied simulation, the paper investigates Fellini's ways of anchoring film affect in the viewer's body. The discussion is focused on the viewer's body and the phenomenology of engagement with Fellini's films, rather than the cerebral puzzlement and top‐down cognitive processing they might elicit. These and other visual tactics are interrogated with respect to phenomenological film theory and recent neurocognitive studies that look at spectators’ engagement with art and film. Fellini's quest for unmediated engagement between viewer and film is analyzed on the basis of a tripartite periodization: (1) intense employment of the foreground, primarily in the black‐and‐white films (2) a painterly middle period and (3) recourse to plastic, vapor, and other forms of material excess, in the third and last period. It attends to the potency of haptic appeal, somatic communication, and sensorimotor activation offered by Fellini's cinema. The paper reexamines the “Fellini look” from a phenomenological perspective.
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