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Performing Pleasure and Suffering: Resident Evil: Village Playthroughs Through the Lens of Psychoanalytic Film Theory
Formánková, Lucie ; Anger, Jiří (advisor) ; Česálková, Lucie (referee)
Klíčová slova (česky): Psychoanalytická filmová teorie, Masochismus, Teorie diváctví, Resident Evil: Village, Videohry, Playthrough Keywords (in English): Psychoanalytic film theory, Spectatorship, Masochism, Resident Evil: Village, Video games, Playthrough Abstract (in English): The idea of the spectator as a set of emotional, perceptual, and identification processes has been linked since the beginnings of psychoanalytic film theory to the disposition of the cinema, where the main driver of mental processes is the moving image on the screen. Thus, classical psychoanalytic theory understands the viewer as a figure hidden in darkness, passively receiving in an individual union with the audiovisual work. But what happens when the emotions evoked by the film are laid bare, the position with which the consumer identifies is thematized by the expressive means of new media and mutually negotiated by the conditions set by the specific audiovisual work? How can we approach such a model in terms of the psychoanalytic theory of spectatorship? What processes occur on the viewer's part as an active participant who makes their film viewing visible, reflects, and performs in the context of contemporary online culture? The phenomenon of so-called playthrough videos works with the motif of placing oneself, one's reactions,...
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