Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotion, Culture, and Film - Softcover

Grodal, Torben

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9780195371321: Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotion, Culture, and Film
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Embodied Visions presents a groundbreaking analysis of film through the lens of bioculturalism, revealing how human biology as well as human culture determine how films are made and experienced. Throughout his study, Torben Grodal uses the breakthroughs of modern brain science to explain central features of film aesthetics and to construct a general model of aesthetic experience-what he terms the PECMA flow model-that demonstrates the movement of information and emotions in the brain when viewing film. Examining a wide array of genres-animation, romance, pornography, fantasy, horror-from evolutionary and psychological perspectives, Grodal also reflects on social issues at the intersection of film theory and neuropsychology. These include moral problems in film viewing, how we experience realism and character identification, and the value of the subjective forms that cinema uniquely elaborates.

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About the Author

Torben Grodal is Professor of Film and Media at the University of Copenhagen. He is author of numerous publications, including Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195371321
ISBN 13 
9780195371321
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Number of pages
336
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