The McGurk universe : the physiological and the psychological in audiovisual culture / K.J. Donnelly.
Donnelly, K. J. (Kevin J.), author.
2022
HM621 .D66 2022
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Title The McGurk universe : the physiological and the psychological in audiovisual culture / K.J. Donnelly.
Author Donnelly, K. J. (Kevin J.), author.
ISBN 9783031186332 (electronic bk.)
3031186338 (electronic bk.)
9783031186325
303118632X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18633-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-18633-2 doi
Call Number HM621 .D66 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.01
Summary This book reconsiders audiovisual culture through a focus on human perception, with recourse to ideas derived from recent neuroscience. It proceeds from the assumption that rather than simply working on a straightforward cognitive level audiovisual culture also functions more fundamentally on a physiological level, directly exploiting precise aspects of human perception. Vision and hearing are unified in a merged signal in the brain through being processed in the same areas. This is illustrated by the startling McGurk Effect, whereby the perception of spoken sound is changed by its accompanying image, and counterpart effects which demonstrate that what we see is affected by different sounds accompanying sounds. This blending of sound and images into a whole has become a universal aspect of culture, not only evident in films and television but also in video games and short Internet clips. Indeed, this aesthetic formation has become the dominant of this period. The McGurk Universe attends to how audiovisual culture engages with and mediates between physiological and psychological levels. K.J. Donnelly is Professor of Film and Film Music at the University of Southampton, UK, and author of The Shining (2017), Magical Musical Tour (2015), Occult Aesthetics (2013), British Film Music and Film Musicals (2007), The Spectre of Sound (2005), and Pop Music in British Cinema (2001).
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Series Palgrave studies in audio-visual culture.
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction
CHAPTER 2: The McGurk Universe Neuro and Aesthetic Theory
CHAPTER 3: Perpetual Realism: Mediating Fantasy and Reality
CHAPTER 4: Mediating the Psychological and the Physiological
CHAPTER 5: Spandrels and Synergy
CHAPTER 6: Gymnasium for the Senses: the Artificiality of Audiovisual Space
CHAPTER 7: Conclusion.

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