Mireille Berton

Mireille Berton is a senior lecturer at the department of Film Studies of the University of Lausanne. Her research mainly focuses on the relationship between cinema and mind sciences (psychoanalysis, psychiatry, parapsychology) and on the cultural history of spectatorship. She is the author of Le médium (au) cinéma. Le spiritisme à l’écran (Georg, 2021) and Le corps nerveux des spectateurs. Cinéma et sciences du psychisme autour de 1900 (L’Âge d’Homme, 2015). She is principal investigator of an SNFS project “Cinéma et (neuro)psychiatrie en Suisse: autour de la collection Waldau (1920–1990)” that highlights the major role played by the Waldau Hospital in the use of the filmic medium for research and education during the twentieth century.