Embodied Affect
In Blockbuster Spectacles
Steen Christiansen
@dissemination
What mode of seeing is present
in Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy?
Camera movement creates an
immersion where “the viewer is
not recentered but continually
open and opened by movements
(sensations) that pass through
him/her” (Walsh 2004)
Battumbler
We do not identify with a
character but with the force of
movement – an intensity of
sensation
The perceptual realism creates
incredibly powerful sensations of
bodily movement
Kinetics:
how the spectator embodies
cinematic movement
Nolan’s kinetics are incredibly
smooth and powerful; they make
us feel in contro