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Understanding cinema : a psychological theory of moving imagery

Author: Per Persson
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Per Persson
ISBN: 052181328X 9780521813280
OCLC Number: 50694795
Description: xi, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Understanding and dispositions --
Psychology: understanding and dispositions --
Parameters of dispositions --
The psychological model of reception --
Discourse and meaning --
Some specifications of the model --
2. Understanding point-of-view editing --
Historical context of point-of-view editing --
Spatial immersion begins --
Editing between adhacent places: movement --
Editing between adjacent places: gazing --
Functions of point-of-view editing --
Deictic gaze --
The structure deictic-gaze bahavior --
How does point-of-view editing work? --
Explaining the presence of the point-of-view convention in mainstream cinema --
3. Variable framing and personal space --
Personal space --
Visual media and personal space --
Personal space and variable framing --
Early cinema --
Variable framing in mainstream narrative cinema --
Voyeurism --
4. Character psychology and mental attribution --
Textual theories of characters --
Reception-based theories of characters --
The psychology of recognition and alignment --
Why Mental States? --
"Subjective Access" versus "Mental Attribution" --
Mental attribution in everyday life --
Mental attribution processes in reception of cinema --
The emotions of cinematic characters --
Text and mental attribution --
The narrativization and psychologization of early cinema psychology as complement?
Responsibility: Per Persson.
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