Mette Kramer

Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition is the first empirical consideration of the biological importance of films about social bonds, such as romantic films and melodramas. Whilst romantic films and melodramas have suffered from the negative reputation of communicating non-adaptive emotions, films about relationships continue to fascinate, leaving film theory with unanswered questions related to the fascination and function of relationships films"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781501332975
• ISBN-10: 150133297X
• Artikelnr.: 69670073

Autorenporträt

Mette Kramer is a Danish scholar in film studies and cognitive psychology. She earned a PhD in film studies and cognitive psychology and has written on emotion, cognition and film in a number of articles. She is the co-author of Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film (2018) and is currently writing a book on the psychology of attachment style in romantic relationships.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Emotion in the Attachment Film
2. Attachment, Perception, and Emotion
3. Attachment Theory, the Narrative Structure of Melodrama, and the Role of
Emotional Regulation
4. Character Engagement: "The Scene of Empathy" in the Attachment Film and
its Aesthetics
5. The Interaction of Affective-Motivational and Cognitive States State
Transitions and Regulation in Engagement with Attachment Films
6. The Pleasure of Experiencing Positive and Negative Attachment Scenarios
References
Notes
Index