Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition - Brossura

Grodal, Torben

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198159838 ISBN 13: 9780198159834

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Riassunto

Moving Pictures is a bold new theoretical account of the role of emotions and cognition in producing the aesthetic effects of film and television genres. It argues that film genres are mental structures which integrate sensations, emotions, and actions, activating the viewer's body and mind. Using recent developments in neuroscience and cognitive science, in combination with narrative theory and film theory, Torben Grodal provides an alternative account to that offered by psychoanalysis explaining identification and the correlation of viewer reaction with specific film genres. Concluding with an analysis of the emotional structures of comic fiction, metafiction, crime fiction, horror, and melodrama, the book is unique in describing a wide range of problems and issues within film studies, from a cognitive, neurophysiological, and ecological point of view.

Highly original, the work will interest scholars in a wide range of fields, from aesthetics to psychology in addition to researchers in the areas of film and television theory.

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Recensione:

Groundbreaking....Throughout, Grodal refers to an admirably wide range of films; there is a particularly fascinating section on Gone with the Wind and Vertigo. Must reading for anyone interested in film theory. Brilliant. (Choice)

L'autore:

Torben Grodal is Professor of Media Studies at The University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0198159838
• ISBN 13: 9780198159834
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320