Revisiting the Kuleshov effect with first-time viewers

Ildirar, Sermin and Ewing, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5263-1267 (2018) Revisiting the Kuleshov effect with first-time viewers. Projections, 12 (1). 19–38. ISSN 1934-9688

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Abstract

Researchers have recently suggested that historically mixed findings in studies of the Kuleshov effect (a classic film editing-related phenomenon whereby meaning is extracted from the interaction of sequential camera shots) might reflect differences in the relative sophistication of early vs. modern cinema audiences. Relative to experienced audiences, first-time film viewers might be less predisposed and/or able to forge the required conceptual and perceptual links between the edited shots in order to demonstrate the effect. The current study recreates the conditions that traditionally elicit this effect (whereby a neutral face comes to be perceived as expressive after it is juxtaposed with independent images: a bowl of soup, a gravestone, a child playing) to directly investigate and compare “continuity” perception in first-time and more experienced film viewers. Results confirm the presence of the Kuleshov effect for experienced viewers (explicitly only in the sadness condition) but not the first-time viewers, who failed to perceive continuity between the shots.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	kuleshov effect,continuity perception,artificial landscape,first-time viewers,naive viewers
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2017 03:26
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 02:11
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/62291
DOI:	10.3167/proj.2018.120103

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