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The empathic screen : cinema and neuroscience

Title: The empathic screen : cinema and neuroscience / by Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra ; translated by Frances Anderson.
Publication: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

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xxiii, 238 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Schermo Empatico. Italian.

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Originally published as "Lo Schermo Empatico : cinema e neuroscienze" by Raffaello Cortina editore, 2015.
Translated from Italian.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-225) and index.

Call Number

MFL 20-17

ISBN

0198793537
9780198793533

OCLC

1090201640

Title

The empathic screen : cinema and neuroscience / by Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra ; translated by Frances Anderson.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-225) and index.

Added Author

Gallese, Vittorio. Essays. Selections.

Guerra, Michele, 1982- Essays. Selections.

Anderson, Frances, translator.

Research Call Number

MFL 20-17

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