Mette Kramer

Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition is a bold intervention that seeks to center the bodily and affective dimensions of film traditionally regarded as "feminine".

The author uses attachment theory in an interdisciplinary framework with an emphasis on biology and a species-based understanding of pro-social behavior to approach films about attachment motivations.

By blending affective and cognitive neuroscience research with tendencies deeply embedded in the humanities, this book makes a major contribution to the field of cognitive film theory. The focus on attachment theory also makes a meta-generic address via its focus on romance and melodrama that makes it useful for other narratives that overlap affective and generic boundaries. The book presents a model of attachment-film experiences with its inbuilt shifts in affective and cognitive regulative processes and makes an ambitious case for how engagement with attachment film viewing can be understood from both a universal and an individual perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501332999
• Artikelnr.: 72260408

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