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

Author/creator Gallese, Vittorio
Other author Guerra, Michele, 1982-
Other author Anderson, Frances, 1950-
Other author Oxford University Press.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoOxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Descriptionxxiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subjects

Uniform titleSchermo Empatico. 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.
General noteOriginally published as "Lo Schermo Empatico : cinema e neuroscienze" by Raffaello Cortina editore, 2015.
General noteTranslated from Italian.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2019935965
ISBN9780198793533 (hardback)
ISBN0198793537 (hardback)

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