ISBN:
1299754473
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9781299754478
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9780809387571
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0809387573
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 253 pages)
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illustrations
Parallel Title:
Print version Moving image theory
DDC:
302.2343
Keywords:
Motion pictures Psychological aspects
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Motion picture audiences Psychology
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Motion picture audiences Psychology
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Motion pictures Psychological aspects
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Motion picture audiences Psychology
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Motion pictures Psychological aspects
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Motion picture audiences ; Psychology
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Motion pictures ; Psychological aspects
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Psychologie
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Zuschauer
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Film
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PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Blending unconventional film theory with nontraditional psychology to provide a radically different set of critical methods and propositions about cinema, Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations looks at film through its communication properties rather than its social or political implications. Drawing on the tenets of James J. Gibson's ecological theory of visual perception, the fifteen essays and forty-one illustrations gathered here by editors Joseph D. Anderson and Barbara Fisher Anderson offer a new understanding of how moving images are seen and understood.〈B
Description / Table of Contents:
Part One. Information Available in Moving Images: 1. Perceiving Scenes in Film and in the World / James E. Cutting ; 2. The Value of Oriented Geometry for Ecological Psychology and Moving Image Art / Robert E. Shaw and William M. MacePart Two. Perception of Simulated Human Motion: 3. Creating Realistic Motion / Jessica K. Hodgins, James F. O'Brien, Nancy S. Pollard, Robert Sumner, Wayne L. Wooten, Gary Yngve, and Victor Zordan ; 4. Perceiving Human Motion in Synthesized Images / Joseph D. Anderson and Jessica K. Hodgins -- Part Three. Acoustic Events: 5. Background Tracks in Recent Cinema / Charles Eidsvik ; 6. Acoustic Specification of Object Properties / Claudia Carello, Jeffrey B. Wagman, and Michael T. Turvey -- Part Four. Information in Facial Expression: 7. Three Views of Facial Expression and Its Understanding in the Cinema / Ed S. Tan ; 8. Facial Motion as a Cue to Identity / Karen Lander and Vicki Bruce -- Part Five. Coupling of Perception and Emotion: 9. Film Lighting and Mood / Torben Kragh Grodal ; 10. Cinematic Creation of Emotion / Dolf Zillmann -- Part Six. Appeals of Reality-Based Moving Images: 11. Documentary's Peculiar Appeals / Dirk Eitzen ; 12. Reality Programming: Evolutionary Models of Film and Television Viewership / William Evans -- Part Seven. Events, Symbols, and Metaphors: 13. Through Alice's Glass: The Creation and Perception of Other Worlds in Movies, Pictures, and Virtual Reality / Sheena Rogers ; 14. Metaphors in Movies / John M. Kennedy and Dan Chiappe.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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