The relationships between therapy culture, psychology, and cinema: The case of Woody Allen

Abstract

First of all, a little history: in the prehistoric caves of Altamira appears the painted image of a bison with eight legs (Gubern, 1993: 13). In a broad sense, the artist responsible for this detail, in what has been referred to as The Sistine Chapel of Quaternary Art, may be regarded as the very first filmmaker. In his pursuit to capture reality with a hunting scene, he tried to reproduce the movement that was characteristic of his subject, immortalizing his subject in an imitative document in a style to which he could aspire with the technologies at his disposal.