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Title: Picturing the Autobiographical Imagination: Emotion, Memory and Metacognition in Inside Out
Contributor(s): Moss-Wellington, Wyatt  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2021
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.3366/film.2021.0168
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/58587
Abstract: 

Inside Out (Pete Docter & Ronnie Del Carmen, 2015) develops novel cinematic means for representing memory, emotion and imagination, their interior relationships and their social expression. Its unique animated language both playfully represents pre-teenage metacognition, and is itself a manner of metacognitive interrogation. Inside Out motivates this language to ask two questions: an explicit question regarding the social function of sadness, and a more implicit question regarding how one can identify agency, and thereby a sense of developing selfhood, between one's memories, emotions, facets of personality, and future-thinking imagination. Both the complexity of the language Inside Out develops to ask these questions, and the complicated answers the film provides, ultimately serve as a manner of recognition of the effortfulness of finding one's place in the world. This article talks sequentially through the complex representative systems Inside Out advances in order to pay homage to the ways in which metacognitive cinema–as well as discussions and hermeneutic readings around that cinema–can make viewers feel recognised for invisible, internal labour that is existentially difficult to share due to its very interiority" an interiority that is reconstructed in imaginative processes such as autobiographical reminiscence, and filmic animation.

Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Film-Philosophy, 25(2), p. 187-206
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1466-4615
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 360501 Cinema studies
500312 Philosophy of cognition
520404 Memory and attention
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: tbd
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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