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Title Moving image theory : ecological considerations / edited by Joseph D. Anderson and Barbara Fisher Anderson ; with a foreword by David Bordwell
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations
Contents Part One. Information Available in Moving Images: 1. Perceiving Scenes in Film and in the World / James E. Cutting ; 2. The Value of Oriented Geometry for Ecological Psychology and Moving Image Art / Robert E. Shaw and William M. Mace -- Part Two. Perception of Simulated Human Motion: 3. Creating Realistic Motion / Jessica K. Hodgins, James F. O'Brien, Nancy S. Pollard, Robert Sumner, Wayne L. Wooten, Gary Yngve, and Victor Zordan ; 4. Perceiving Human Motion in Synthesized Images / Joseph D. Anderson and Jessica K. Hodgins -- Part Three. Acoustic Events: 5. Background Tracks in Recent Cinema / Charles Eidsvik ; 6. Acoustic Specification of Object Properties / Claudia Carello, Jeffrey B. Wagman, and Michael T. Turvey -- Part Four. Information in Facial Expression: 7. Three Views of Facial Expression and Its Understanding in the Cinema / Ed S. Tan ; 8. Facial Motion as a Cue to Identity / Karen Lander and Vicki Bruce -- Part Five. Coupling of Perception and Emotion: 9. Film Lighting and Mood / Torben Kragh Grodal ; 10. Cinematic Creation of Emotion / Dolf Zillmann -- Part Six. Appeals of Reality-Based Moving Images: 11. Documentary's Peculiar Appeals / Dirk Eitzen ; 12. Reality Programming: Evolutionary Models of Film and Television Viewership / William Evans -- Part Seven. Events, Symbols, and Metaphors: 13. Through Alice's Glass: The Creation and Perception of Other Worlds in Movies, Pictures, and Virtual Reality / Sheena Rogers ; 14. Metaphors in Movies / John M. Kennedy and Dan Chiappe
Summary Blending unconventional film theory with nontraditional psychology to provide a radically different set of critical methods and propositions about cinema, Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations looks at film through its communication properties rather than its social or political implications. Drawing on the tenets of James J. Gibson's ecological theory of visual perception, the fifteen essays and forty-one illustrations gathered here by editors Joseph D. Anderson and Barbara Fisher Anderson offer a new understanding of how moving images are seen and understood.<B
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects
Motion picture audiences -- Psychology
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Motion picture audiences -- Psychology
Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects
Psychologie
Zuschauer
Film
Form Electronic book
Author Anderson, Joseph, 1940-
Anderson, Barbara Fisher, 1951-
ISBN 9780809387571
0809387573
1299754473
9781299754478