The empathic screen : cinema and neuroscience / Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra ; translated by Frances Anderson.
2019
PN1995
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Title
The empathic screen : cinema and neuroscience / Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra ; translated by Frances Anderson.
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Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191835308 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
PN1995
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.4301
Summary
Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? In this text, film theory and neuroscience meet to shed new light on cinema masterpieces, and explore the great directors from the classical period to the present.
Note
Translated from the Italian.
Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? In this text, film theory and neuroscience meet to shed new light on cinema masterpieces, and explore the great directors from the classical period to the present.
Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? In this text, film theory and neuroscience meet to shed new light on cinema masterpieces, and explore the great directors from the classical period to the present.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 8, 2019).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780198793533
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