Moving pictures

A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition

Bibliographic Data

ID6581534
AuthorsTorben Kragh Grodal, Torben Grodal (University of Copenhagen, corresponding author)
Year2002
Pages306
Publication date2002-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMoving pictures (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherClarendon Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
OpenAlexW4242761792
Open LibraryOL15625269M
ISBN9780198159834
LanguageEN
References cited63

Moving Pictures is a bold new theoretical account of the role of emotions and cognition in producing the aesthetics effects of film and television genres. It argues that film genres are mental structures which integrate sensations, emotions, and actions, activating the viewer's body and mind. Using recent developments in neuroscience and cognitive science in combination with narrative theory and film theory the book provides an alternative account to that offered by psychoanalysis explaining identification and the correlation of viewer reaction with specific film genres. Concluding, with an analysis of the emotional structures of comic fiction, metafiction, crime fiction, horror, and melodrama the book is unique in describing a wide range of problems and issues within film studies, from a cognitive, neurophysiological, and ecological points of view. Highly original, the work will interest scholars in a wide range of fields, from aesthetics to psychology in addition to researchers in the areas of film and television theory

Aesthetics · Art · Cognition · Cognitive science · Comics · Film genres · Film theory · Identification (biology) · Literature · Metafiction · Motion pictures · Movie theater · Narrative · Narratology · Point (geometry) · Psychological aspects · Cinema and Media Studies · Media Influence and Health · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Neuroscience · Psychology · Cognition and culture · Fiction genres · History · Motion pictures, history · Motion pictures, philosophy · Philosophy · Psychological aspects of Motion pictures

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