Inbook,
Introduction
page 9--13. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, (2019)
Abstract
Fifty years ago, a young Belgian psychologist wrote a short book for a small publisher in the Belgian town of Leuven, a book that had little resonance in the French-speaking world and was almost completely overlooked elsewhere. The psychologist, 27 years old at the time, was Jean-Pierre Meunier, and his study bore the title Les Structures de l’expérience filmique: L’identification filmique.¹ Meunier, born in 1941 in Namur (Wallonia), had studied psychology at the Catholic University in Leuven from 1960 to 1964, and subsequently became a chercheur at the Centre des techniques de diffusion under the auspices of Victor Bachy, one
