Largely through trial and error, filmmakers have developed engaging techniques that capture our sensations, thoughts, and feelings. Philosophers and film theorists have thought deeply about the nature and impact of these techniques, yet few scientists have delved into empirical analyses of our movie experience-or what Arthur P. Shimamura has coined "psychocinematics." This edited volume introduces this exciting field by bringing together film theorists, philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists to consider the viability of a scientific approach to our movie experience.
Table of Contents ; Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Preface ; Arthur P. Shimamura ; 1. Psychocinematics: Issues and Directions ; Arthur P. Shimamura ; Part I. Philosophical Foundations ; 2. The Viewer's Share: Models of Mind in Explaining Film ; David Bordwell ; 3. Cognitivism, Psychology, and Neuroscience: Movies as Attentional Engines ; Noel Carroll & William P. Seeley ; 4. Toward an Ecology of the Arts ; Joseph D. Anderson ; 5. The Affective Power of Movies ; Carl Plantinga ; Part II. Sensory and Attentional Features of Movies ; 6. Sensing Motion in Movies ; Katherine J. Thomson-Jones ; 7. Low-Level Features of Film: What They Are and Why We Would Be Lost Without Them ; Kaitlin L. Brunick, James E. Cutting, & Jordan E. DeLong ; 8. Truth, Lies, and Meaning in Slow Motion Images ; Sheena Rogers ; 9. Watching You Watch Movies: Using Eye Tracking to Inform Film Theory ; Tim J. Smith ; Part III. Knowledge, Imagination, and Narratives ; 10. Hollywood Storytelling and Aesthetic Pleasure ; Todd Berliner ; 11. The Art of Simplifying Events ; Stephan Schwan ; 12. Constructing Event Representations During Film Comprehension ; Jeffrey M. Zacks ; 13. Belief, Desire, Action, and Other Stuff: Theory of Mind in Movies ; Daniel T. Levin, Alicia M. Hymel, & Lewis Baker ; Part IV. Driving Emotions With Movies ; 14. How Cues on the Screen Prompt Emotions in the Mind ; Keith Oatley ; 15. E-Motion Pictures of the Brain: Recursive Paths between Affective Neuroscience and Film Studies ; Gal Raz, Boaz Hagin, & Talma Hendler ; 16. Emotion Regulation by Switching between Modes of Reception ; Monika Suckfull ; 17. The Empathic Animal Meets the Inquisitive Animal in the Cinema: Notes on a Psychocinematics of Mind Reading ; Ed Tan ; Index
