Torben Grodal

Embodied Visions (eBook, ePUB)

Evolution, Emotion, Culture, and Film

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190451646
• Artikelnr.: 42676285

Autorenporträt

Torben Grodal is Professor of Film and Media at the University of Copenhagen. He is author of numerous publications, including Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
1: Introduction: Evolution, Biology, Culture and Film
Part One: Film, Culture, and Evolution
1: Universalism, Cultural Variation, and Children's Film
2: Love and Desire in the Cinema
3: Screaming Lambs and Lusty Wolves: Moral and Evolution
4: Undead Ghosts and Living Prey: Fantasy and Horror
5: Sadness, Melodrama and Rituals of Loss and Death
Part Two: Narrative, Visual Aesthetics, Brain, and the PECMA flow
Introduction to Part Two: the PECMA flow
6: Stories for Eyes, Ears, and Muscles - Story as Embodied Simulation
7: Character Simulation and Emotion
8: Art Film, the Transient Body and the Permanent Soul
9: Subjective Aesthetics in Film
10: Realism and Reality
11: Conclusion
Appendix: Frozen PECMA Flows in Trier's Oeuvre
References
Index