Overview
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?We live in a time where the power of images has strongly invaded our everyday life, and we need new instruments and methods to better understand our relationship with the virtual worlds we inhabit every day. Taking cinema as the beginning of our relationship with the world of moving images, and cognitive neuroscience as a paradigm to understand how the images engage us, The Empathic Screen develops a new theory of film experience, exploring our brain-body interaction when engaging with and watching a film. In this book, film theory and neuroscience meet to shed new light on cinema masterpieces, such as The Shining, The Silence of the Lambs, and Toy Story, and explore the great directors from the classical period to the present. Taking a radical new approach to understanding the cinema, the book will be fascinating reading for cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and film and media scholars.
Full Product Details
Author: Vittorio Gallese (Professor of Psychobiology, Professor of Psychobiology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Neuroscience. University of Parma, Italy) ,
Michele Guerra (Professor of Film Theory, Professor of Film Theory, University of Parma, Italy) ,
Frances Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.10cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.610kg
ISBN: 9780198793533
ISBN 10: 0198793537
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 14 October 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Brains have been copying reality imagetically for a few million years. This nervous obsession was essential for constructing consciousness and for creating descriptions of what is as well as predictions of what may be or will be. One curious consequence of this ability, for humans, was the invention of cinema, the art that Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra so beautifully analyze as scientists and humanists in The Empathic Screen, Cinema and Neuroscience. Theirs is an indispensable book. * Antonio Damasio, Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, University of Southern California, Author of The Strange Order of Things *
Author Information
Vittorio Gallese, MD and trained neurologist, is Professor of Psychobiology at the University of Parma, Italy and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Dept. of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University, New York, USA. Cognitive neuroscientist, his research focuses on the relation between the sensory-motor system and cognition by investigating the neurobiological and bodily grounding of intersubjectivity, empathy, language and aesthetics. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications and two books. Michele Guerra is Professor of Film Theory at the University of Parma. Authors of more than one hundred publications among articles and books, his work mainly focuses on the relationship between cognitive neuroscience and cinema, American and Italian film history. He is an Associate Editor of the film journal ""Fata Morgana"", and member of the Scientific Board of ""Cinergie"", ""La Valle dell'Eden"", and ""Arabeschi"".
