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1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction: evolution, biology, culture, and film -- Universalism, cultural variation, and children's film -- Love and desire in the cinema -- Screaming lambs and lusty wolves: moral attitudes and evolution -- Undead ghosts and living prey: fantasy and horror -- Sadness, melodrama, and rituals of loss and death -- Stories for eyes, ears, and muscles: the evolution of embodied simulations -- Character simulation and emotion -- Art film, the transient body, and the permanent soul -- Subjective aesthetics in film -- The experience of audiovisual realism -- Conclusion: the gene-culture stream and bioculturalism |
| Summary |
"Embodied Visions is a groundbreaking analysis of how human biology, as well as human culture, determines the ways films are made and experienced. This new approach is called "bioculturalism." The book shows how important formats, such as films for children, romantic films, pornography, fantasy films, horror films, and sad melodramas, appeal to an array of different emotions that have been ingrained in the human embodied brain by the evolutionary process. The book also discusses how these biological dispositions are molded by culture-Abstract |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| SUBJECT |
Bibel Philemonbrief gnd |
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects
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Film -- Evolutionspsychologie.
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Evolutionspsychologie -- Film.
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Film -- Kognitive Psychologie.
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Kognitive Psychologie -- Film.
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Film.
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Filmästhetik.
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Philosophie.
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Psychologie.
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Evolution.
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Evolutionspsychologie
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Kognitive Psychologie
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Evolutionsbiologie
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Filmästhetik
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Psychologie
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects.
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Cinéma -- Aspect psychologique.
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Film -- psykologiska aspekter.
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Filmteori.
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Filmpsykologi.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxford University Press
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| LC no. |
2008023667 |
| ISBN |
9780195371314 |
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0195371313 |
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9780195371321 |
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0195371321 |
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9780199870585 |
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0199870586 |
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