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Moving pictures : a new theory of film genres, feelings, and cognition

Title
Moving pictures : a new theory of film genres, feelings, and cognition / Torben Grodal.
Author
Grodal, Torben Kragh.
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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ix, 306 p.; 25 cm.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-296) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
MFL 97-4657
ISBN
0198159412
LCCN
gb 97029768
OCLC
36796915
Author
Grodal, Torben Kragh.
Title
Moving pictures : a new theory of film genres, feelings, and cognition / Torben Grodal.
Imprint
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-296) and index.
Research Call Number
MFL 97-4657
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