The Photoplay - Münsterberg

1916

“The case of the cut-back is there quite parallel to that of the close-up. In the one we recognize the mental act of attending, in the other we must recognize the mental act of remembering. In both cases the act which in the ordinary theater would go on in our mind alone is here in the photoplay projected into the pictures themselves. It is as if reality has lost its own continuous connection and become shaped by the demands of our soul.”

Münsterberg, Hugo. Photoplay a Psychological Study. 1916. Project Gutenberg. 2005. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15383/15383-h/15383-h.htm#chapter5, Last accessed: April 29th, 2020.