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Zusatztext Psychocinematics is a heroic start at bringing the worlds of psychology and cinema - too long estranged from one another - back together. Informationen zum Autor Professor of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute! University of California! Berkeley Klappentext How do movies engage us so thoroughly! capturing our sensations! thoughts! and emotions? This edited volume introduces psychocinematics! which brings together film theorists! philosophers! psychologists! and neuroscientists to consider the viability of a scientific approach to our movie experience. "This volume brings together many of the major figures in cognitive film theory, philosophy of film, and the latest from psychologists working on perception and emotion. Shimamura (Univ. of California, Berkeley) has compiled a collection of essays that aims to dislodge ruling paradigms in film study and bring together diverse scientific approaches to the movie experience... Summing Up: Recommended." -- S.R. Kozloff, Vassar College, CHOICE"Edited by Arthur P. Shimamura, a psychology professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Psychocinematics is a breakthrough text in many ways. First, it is one of the first books to combine essays on film from experts in the fields of both psychology and cinema studies-important because most studies of film perception tend to come from either one perspective or the other. Second, it integrates many early texts on film art and perception, ... Psychocinematics is a heroic start at bringing the worlds of psychology and cinema-too long estranged from one another-back together." -- PsycCRITIQUES Zusammenfassung How do movies engage us so thoroughly, capturing our sensations, thoughts, and emotions? This edited volume introduces psychocinematics, which brings together film theorists, philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists to consider the viability of a scientific approach to our movie experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Arthur P. Shimamura; 1. Psychocinematics: Issues and Directions; Arthur P. Shimamura; Part I. Philosophical Foundations; 2. The Viewer's Share: Models of Mind in Explaining Film; David Bordwell; 3. Cognitivism! Psychology! and Neuroscience: Movies as Attentional Engines; Noel Carroll & William P. Seeley; 4. Toward an Ecology of the Arts; Joseph D. Anderson; 5. The Affective Power of Movies; Carl Plantinga; Part II. Sensory and Attentional Features of Movies; 6. Sensing Motion in Movies; Katherine J. Thomson-Jones; 7. Low-Level Features of Film: What They Are and Why We Would Be Lost Without Them; Kaitlin L. Brunick! James E. Cutting! & Jordan E. DeLong; 8. Truth! Lies! and Meaning in Slow Motion Images; Sheena Rogers; 9. Watching You Watch Movies: Using Eye Tracking to Inform Film Theory; Tim J. Smith; Part III. Knowledge! Imagination! and Narratives; 10. Hollywood Storytelling and Aesthetic Pleasure; Todd Berliner; 11. The Art of Simplifying Events; Stephan Schwan; 12. Constructing Event Representations During Film Comprehension; Jeffrey M. Zacks; 13. Belief! Desire! Action! and Other Stuff: Theory of Mind in Movies; Daniel T. Levin! Alicia M. Hymel! & Lewis Baker; Part IV. Driving Emotions With Movies; 14. How Cues on the Screen Prompt Emotions in the Mind; Keith Oatley; 15. E-Motion Pictures of the Brain: Recursive Paths between Affective Neuroscience and Film Studies; Gal Raz! Boaz Hagin! & Talma Hendler; 16. Emotion Regulation by Switching between Modes of Reception; Monika Suckfull; 17. The Empathic Animal Meets the Inquisitive Animal in the Cinema: Notes on a Psychocinematics of Mind Reading; Ed Tan; Index ...
