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Embodied Visions presents a groundbreaking analysis of film through the lens of bioculturalism, revealing how human biology as well as human culture determine how films are made and experienced. Throughout his study, Torben Grodal uses the breakthroughs of modern brain science to explain central features of film aesthetics and to construct a general model of aesthetic experience - what he terms the PECMA flow model - that demonstrates the movement of information and emotions in the brain when viewing film. Examining a wide array of genres - animation, romance, pornography, fantasy, horror - from evolutionary and psychological frameworks, Grodal expands his scope to reflect on social issues at the intersection of film theory and neuropsychology, including moral problems in film viewing, how we experience realism and character identification, and the value of the subjective forms that cinema elaborates. Embodied Visions broadens the theoretical framework of cognitive approaches to cinema while contributing toward a growing body of work on the relation between biology and culture.Show lessShare: Also of Interest Cover for Moving Pictures Moving Pictures Torben Grodal Cover for Imagining New York City Imagining New York City Christoph Lindner Cover for Neuropsychology Neuropsychology Sandra Koffler, Joel Morgan, Bernice Marcopulos, Manfred F. Greiffenstein Cover for Why Horror Seduces Why Horror Seduces Mathias Clasen Cover for Imagining New York City Imagining New York City Christoph Lindner Cover for Redefining Recovery from Aphasia Redefining Recovery from Aphasia Dalia Cahana-Amitay, Martin Albert Cover for Who Owns the World Who Owns the World's Media? Eli M. Noam, The International Media Concentration Collaboration Cover for Making Music in Selznick Making Music in Selznick's Hollywood Nathan Platte Cover for Cognitive Plasticity in Neurologic Disorders Cognitive Plasticity in Neurologic Disorders Joseph I Tracy, Benjamin M Hampstead, Krishnankutty Sathian Cover for Do-It-Yourself Democracy Do-It-Yourself Democracy Caroline W. Lee Cover for Hollywood Aesthetic Hollywood Aesthetic Todd Berliner Cover for The Social Psychology of Disability The Social Psychology of Disability Dana Dunn Cover for The Documentary Film Reader The Documentary Film Reader Jonathan Kahana, Charles Musser Cover for Hollywood Aesthetic Hollywood Aesthetic Todd Berliner Cover for Law, Psychology, and Morality Law, Psychology, and Morality Eyal Zamir Cover for The Documentary Film Reader The Documentary Film Reader Jonathan Kahana, Charles MusserRelated CategoriesArts & Humanities > Media Studies > FilmScience & Mathematics > Psychology > NeuropsychologyArts & Humanities > Media Studies

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