L’aparté du spectateur : le pouvoir « immertiel » du monologue intérieur
This master’s thesis studies the influence of the inner monologue on the immersion of a spectator when he/she audioviews a narrative film work. More specifically, it is interested in describing the different perceptual mechanisms involved in the processing of sensory information and the ways in which these influence the production and perception of an inner speech in the viewer. From a functionalist cognitive perspective, this dissertation explores different hypotheses and concepts related to attentional, memory and language processes in humans, which are themselves strongly involved in the decoding of a fictional and narrative work. The proposed research allows us to revisit the general theory of PECMA flow developed by Torben Grodal (1997), which conceives the cinematic experience as a sensory processing flow. The transhistorical and intersectorial approach adopted in this dissertation allows us to address certain materialist conceptions related to the physiological and neurological functioning of the human brain, by combining them with different theories from the humanities and social sciences related to the dialogical self, the narrative self, as well as bottom-up and top-down processing. Finally, the analysis of an excerpt from The Tree of Life (2011), by director Terrence Malick, demonstrates how the experience of audio-viewing a film can contribute to the establishment of a necessary distance from the narrative, which proves to be essential in the actualization and perception of an “immertial” inner monologue in the subject.  Using the notions developed in the different chapters and based on the PECMA flow model, the master’s thesis illustrates how a filmic work can contribute to the emergence, in parallel to the audiovisioning, of a very particular inner conversation in the spectator's mind, which directly participates in his filmic immersiveness. A particular attention will be paid to the use of the voice-over in cinema, to demonstrate how its treatment in the work under study makes it an element of the cinematographic language that favors the elaboration of a trialogue between the thinking subject confronted with its own inner monologue and its position of receiver of the discourse(s) transmitted by the film.
immersion neurosciences PECMA flow The Tree of Life cinema cognitivism immersion immertial inner monologue neurosciences PECMA flow spectator The Tree of Life voice-over