Goldilocks Aesthetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21833480 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James E Cutting (0000-0002-7338-846X, Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 66-74 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Projections (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1934-9688 • E-ISSN: 1934-9696 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/proj.2020.140206 |
| OpenAlex | W4235265639 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
Much of aesthetics is based in psychological responses. Yet seldom have such responses—couched in empirically based psychological terms—played a central role in the discussion of movie aesthetics. Happily, Todd Berliner’s Hollywood Aesthetic: Pleasure in American Cinema does just that. This commentary discusses some history and some twists and turns behind Berliner’s analysis
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Goldilocks principle · Hollywood · Movie theater · Pleasure · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Art History and Market Analysis · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
Conflict, arousal, and curiosity.
Novelty, complexity, and hedonic value
The Goldilocks Effect
An opponent-process theory of motivation
The relation of strength of stimulus to rapidity of habit‐formation
A Hand-Book to the History of Philosophy
The opponent-process theory of acquired motivation
Aesthetic appraisal of product designs
A decade after Berlyne
| Highly cited | No |
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