Moving pictures a new theory of film genres, feelings, and cognition / [Book :]
Torben Grodal.
- 1st ed.
- Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1997.
- ix, 306 p. ; 25 cm.
includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-296) and index.
Pt. 1. Visual fiction as embodied mental flow. Chpt. 1. Fiction, symbolic simulation, and reality ; chpt. 2. Cognition, emotion, brain-processes, and narration ; chpt. 3. Associative networks, focus of attention, and analogue communication -- pt. 2. Narratives as basic mental models. chpt. 4. Cognitive identification and empathy ; chpt. 5. Intentions, will, goal, consciousness, and humanness ; chpt. 6. Subjectivity, causaility, and time -- pt. 3. A typology of genres and emotions. chpt. 7. A typology of genres of fiction -- pt. 4. Laughter, distance, horror, and tears. chpt. 8. Comic fictions ; chpt. 9. Metaframes as emotion-filters and brackets ; chpt. 10. Crime and horror fiction ; chpt. 11. Melodrama, lyrics, and autonomic response.
All age.
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Motion pictures--Psychological aspects. Film genres.