Embodied visions : evolution, emotion, culture, and film
Grodal, Torben KraghAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2009.
Torben Grodal presents an analysis of film through the lens of bioculturalism, revealing how human biology as well as human culture determine how films are made and experienced. He uses the breakthroughs of modern brain science to explain features of film aesthetics and to construct a general model of aesthetic experience.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Torben Grodal presents an analysis of film through the lens of bioculturalism, revealing how human biology as well as human culture determine how films are made and experienced. He uses the breakthroughs of modern brain science to explain features of film aesthetics and to construct a general model of aesthetic experience.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: evolution, biology, culture, and film -- Universalism, cultural variation, and children's film -- Love and desire in the cinema -- Screaming lambs and lusty wolves: moral attitudes and evolution -- Undead ghosts and living prey: fantasy and horror -- Sadness, melodrama, and rituals of loss and death -- Stories for eyes, ears, and muscles: the evolution of embodied simulations -- Character simulation and emotion -- Art film, the transient body, and the permanent soul -- Subjective aesthetics in film -- The experience of audiovisual realism -- Conclusion: the gene-culture stream and bioculturalism.
Motion pictures
Film
Music, Dance, Drama & Film