“Every Theory Needs a Reference to Lived Experience”: An Interview with Jean-Pierre Meunier
page 14--30. Amsterdam University Press, (2019)Abstract
Your book came out in 1969 when you were still a very young scholar. Can you tell us a bit about the years leading up to your writing of The Structures of the Film Experience?¹Jean-Pierre Meunier: From 1960 to 1964, I did a degree in psychology at the Catholic University of Leuven/Louvain. At that time, the teaching of psychology was very diverse. It naturally included many courses of so-called scientific psychology, like experimental psychology and psychometrics. But, on the other hand, often in opposition to the pure and hard experimentalist tendency, many teachings gave a relatively important place to