The Empathic Screen - Cinema and Neuroscience (Hardcover)

Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? We live in a time where the power of images has strongly invaded our everyday life, and we need new instruments and methods to better understand our relationship with the virtual worlds we inhabit every day. Taking cinema as the beginning of our relationship with the world of moving images, and cognitive neuroscience as a paradigm to understand how the images engage us, The Empathic Screen develops a new theory of film experience, exploring our brain-body interaction when engaging with and watching a film. In this book, film theory and neuroscience meet to shed new light on cinema masterpieces, such as The Shining, The Silence of the Lambs, and Toy Story, and explore the great directors from the classical period to the present. Taking a radical new approach to understanding the cinema, the book will be fascinating reading for cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and film and media scholars.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2019
Authors:	Vittorio Gallese (Professor of Psychobiology) • Michele Guerra (Professor of Film Theory)
Translators:	Frances Anderson
Dimensions:	240 x 161 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-879353-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Physiological & neuro-psychology Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-879353-7
Barcode:	9780198793533

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