Moving Pictures
A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition
Torben Grodal
Price: £23.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815983-4
Publication date: 25 February 1999
320 pages, 16 line illus, 234x156 mm
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| Description | | - * Major new theory of how film affects the viewer emotionally and psychologically
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* 'In what is perhaps the most ambitious work in film theory to be published this past year Torben Grodal has attempted to outline a holistic theory of the experience of visual fiction. . . . In Moving Pictures
, [he] has undertaken a mammoth task that is of necessity an eclectic enterprise . . . Moving Pictures
is a valuable contribution to the field of film theory and rewards the
reader well for the effort.' Barbara Anderson, Film Quarterly
| 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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Readership: Lecturers and scholars in film and television studies, communication studies, psychology and aesthetics.
| Contents |
Introduction
PART I
1.
Fiction, Symbolic Simulation, and Reality
2.
Cognition, Emotion, Brain Processes, and Narration
3.
Associative Networks, Focus of Attention, and Analogue Communication
PART II
4.
Cognitive Identification and Empathy
5.
Intentions, Will, Goal, Consciousness, and Humanness
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Subjectivity, Causality, and Time
PART III
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A Typology of Genres of Fiction
PART IV
8.
Comic Fictions
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Metaframes as Emotion Filters and Brackets
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Crime and Horror Fiction
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Melodrama, Lyrics, and Autonomic Response
Recapitulation and Conclusion
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Torben Grodal, Professor of Media Studies
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