Moving pictures
Subtitle: a new theory of film genres, feelings, and cognition
By: Torben Grodal.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects; Film genres
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Visual fiction as embodied mental flow. Chpt. 1. Fiction, symbolic simulation, and reality; title: chpt. 2. Cognition, emotion, brain-processes, and narration; title: chpt. 3. Associative networks, focus of attention, and analogue communication; title: pt. 2. Narratives as basic mental models. chpt. 4. Cognitive identification and empathy; title: chpt. 5. Intentions, will, goal, consciousness, and humanness; title: chpt. 6. Subjectivity, causaility, and time; title: pt. 3. A typology of genres and emotions. chpt. 7. A typology of genres of fiction; title: pt. 4. Laughter, distance, horror, and tears. chpt. 8. Comic fictions; title: chpt. 9. Metaframes as emotion-filters and brackets; title: chpt. 10. Crime and horror fiction; title: chpt. 11. Melodrama, lyrics, and autonomic response.