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TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; BIO-CULTURALISM; CINEMA AS THE REDEMPTION OF ARCHETYPAL REALITY; CHAPTER TWO; NEUROTRANSMITTER PERSISTENCE, NARRATIVE STRUCTURE, AND EMOTION; EXPANDED EMPATHY; CHAPTER THREE; ASSESSING THE REALITY-STATUS OF FILM; UNDERSTANDING CHARACTER MOTIVATION; CHAPTER FOUR; FORMS MIRRORING FEELINGS; EMBODIED SPACES; CHAPTER FIVE; META-EMOTION AND GENRE PREFERENCE; THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE GAZE; CHAPTER SIX; ""THE SEA INSIDE""; RHYTHM AND IMAGE IN DREYER'S FILMS; CHAPTER SEVEN; THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPATHY IN THE ACTOR'S ART. |
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EMPATHY AND THE EPISODIC STRUCTURE OF ENGAGEMENT IN FICTION FILMCHAPTER EIGHT; VIRTUAL REALITY IN MOVING IMAGES; PERCEPTUAL OPTIMIZATION OF AUDIO-VISUAL MEDIA; CHAPTER NINE; OVERCOMING CONFLICTS BY PLAY; COGNITIVE FILM THEORY AND FILM COMEDY; CHAPTER TEN; OMITTING DEPTH CUES; COGNITION AND THE AESTHETICS OF REEXPERIENCE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX. |
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Philosophers and students of the arts have wondered since the time of Aristotle about the nature of aesthetic experience, and how this experience can seemingly be evoked by works of art. For more than a century producers and directors of motion pictures have made decisions about how to craft them based upon assumptions about complex stylistic devices and the effects such patterns of organization have on viewers. Over the past few years film scholars have made considerable progress in analyzin ... |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Motion picture audiences -- Psychology -- Congresses.
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Motion picture audiences -- Psychology. |
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses.
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Anderson, Barbara Fisher, 1951-
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Print version: Anderson, Joseph D. Narration and Spectatorship in Moving Images. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2007 9781847183095 |
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9781443809214 (electronic book) |
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1443809217 (electronic book) |
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9781847183095 (hardback) |
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1847183093 (hardback) |
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