1 option
The empathic screen : cinema and neuroscience / by Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra ; translated by Frances Anderson.
Van Pelt Library PN1995 .S38513 2020
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Schermo Empatico. Englsh.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Neurosciences and motion pictures.
- Empathy.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- Translated from Italian.
- 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?0We 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 and0watching 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. 0Taking 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published as "Lo Schermo Empatico : cinema e neuroscienze" by Raffaello Cortina editore, 2015.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Gallese, Vittorio. Essays. Selections.
- Guerra, Michele, 1982- Essays. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 9780198793533
- 0198793537
- OCLC:
- 1090201640
- Publisher Number:
- 99984146697
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.