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This chapter provides an overview, from the perspective of cognitive film theory, of the affective power of movies. How is it that movies are able to make viewers laugh, cry, yell, squirm in their seats, feel suspense, and remain fascinated for the length of a screening?
psychological functions. Film scenes may represent as-if percep-tions, as-if thoughts, as-if streams of associations, and as-if emotions or more generally: display subjectivity.2 Second, the film
- Ed S. Tan, Ed S. Tan
- 2018
Mar 1, 2007 · As psychological science has developed, particularly in the cognitive realm, the study of film has progressed beyond a purely psychoanalytical pursuit, says Ira Konigsberg, a Professor Emeritus of Film and Video Studies at the University of Michigan.
- Eric Jaffe
- 2007
simple way. It dawned on me that to progress in this area, film theory must at least reach out to the field of psychology. In the 1960s, while writing my doctoral thesis on estrangement in the contemporary cinema at the Moscow film institute VGIK, I applied psychological theories of learning, particularly those of Jean Piaget.
Aug 25, 2022 · Outlines an approach to a number of core issues in film theory—visual and auditory perception, character engagement, and narrative comprehension—based upon J. J. Gibson’s ecological theory of perception, which emphasizes the interaction between the perceiver and his environment as well as the putatively unmediated (by mental representations) nat...
Jul 3, 2018 · A bottom-up explanation likens film-viewing to highly automated detection of stimulus features physically given in the supply of images; a top-down one to the construction of scenes from very...
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Jan 19, 2024 · The best way to understand film psychology and character development is to compile a psychology movie list. You can start with the movies on psychology disorders featured in this article. Follow each viewing by watching a film and TV psychology breakdown from the experts.
