Flicker
Subtitle: your brain on movies
By: Jeffrey M. Zacks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780199982875
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture audiences; Psychology; Psychological aspects; Cognition; Emotions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-325) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : A trailer; title: Part I. From up on a screen to inside your head : Your brain wasn't built for movies; title: The movie in your head; title: Tearjerkers and sitcoms; title: How movies make memories; title: The dark side; title: Intermission; title: Part II. The tricks that make movies work : Action!; title: Cut!; title: Bottlenecks, spotlights, and chunks; title: Sleight of hand; title: Virtual futures; title: Epilogue : Stinger.