The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

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Title:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Date:
1916
Publisher:
New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company
Volume:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Leaf #:
00083
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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THE PHOTOPLAY that which is significant and of consequence. This is true for life and stage alike. Our at- tention must be drawn now here, now there, if we want to bind together that which is scat- tered in the space before us. Everything must be shaded by attention and inattention. Whatever is focused by our attention wins emphasis and irradiates meaning over the course of events. In practical life we dis- criminate between voluntary and involuntary attention. We call it voluntary if we ap- proach the impressions with an idea in our mind as to what we want to focus our atten- tion on. We carry our personal interest, our own idea into the observation of the objects. Our attention has chosen its aim beforehand, and we ignore all that does not fulfil this specific interest. All our working is con- trolled by such voluntary attention. We have the idea of the goal which we want to reach in our mind beforehand and subordinate all which we meet to this selective energy. Through our voluntary attention we seek something and accept the offering of the sur- roundings only in so far as it brings us what we are seeking. It is quite different with the involuntary at- 74