Format:
xxiii, 238 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780198793533
Uniform Title:
Schermo Empatico
Content:
Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? We live in a time where the power of images has strongly invaded our everyday life, and we need new instruments and methods to better understand our relationship with the virtual worlds we inhabit every day. Taking cinema as the beginning of our relationship with the world of moving images, and cognitive neuroscience as a paradigm to understand how the images engage us, The Empathic Screen develops a new theory of film experience, exploring our brain-body interaction when engaging with and watching a film. In this book, film theory and neuroscience meet to shed new light on cinema masterpieces, such as The Shining, The Silence of the Lambs, and Toy Story, and explore the great directors from the classical period to the present. Taking a radical new approach to understanding the cinema, the book will be fascinating reading for cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and film and media scholars
Note:
Originally published as "Lo Schermo Empatico : cinema e neuroscienze" by Raffaello Cortina editore, 2015
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Embodied Simulation: A New Model of Perception -- 2.Stilted Movements and Improbable Stares -- 3.Camera Movements and Motor Cognition -- 4.Cut and Harmony -- 5.Face and Hands -- 6.New Mediation, New Films, New Experiments
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Translated from Italian
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Film
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Zuschauer
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Neurowissenschaften
Author information:
Gallese, Vittorio 1959-
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