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Moving Pictures
A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition
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Book Presentation:
• Major new theory of how film affects the viewer emotionally and psychologically
• 'In what is perhaps the most ambitious work in film theory to be published this past year Torben Grodal has attempted to outline a holistic theory of the experience of visual fiction. . . . In Moving Pictures, [he] has undertaken a mammoth task that is of necessity an eclectic enterprise . . . Moving Pictures is a valuable contribution to the field of film theory and rewards the reader well for the effort.' Barbara Anderson, Film Quarterly
Moving Pictures is a bold new theoretical account of the role of emotions and cognition in producing the aesthetic effects of film and television genres. It argues that film genres are mental structures which integrate sensations, emotions, and actions, activating the viewer's body and mind. Using recent developments in neuroscience and cognitive science, in combination with narrative theory and film theory, Torben Grodal provides an alternative account to that offered by psychoanalysis explaining identification and the correlation of viewer reaction with specific film genres. Concluding with an analysis of the emotional structures of comic fiction, metafiction, crime fiction, horror, and melodrama, the book is unique in describing a wide range of problems and issues within film studies, from a cognitive, neurophysiological, and ecological point of view.
Highly original, the work will interest scholars in a wide range of fields, from aesthetics to psychology in addition to researchers in the areas of film and television theory.
About the Author:
Torben Grodal, Professor of Media Studies, University of Copenhagen
Press Reviews:
"Groundbreaking....Throughout, Grodal refers to an admirably wide range of films; there is a particularly fascinating section on Gone with the Wind and Vertigo. Must reading for anyone interested in film theory. Brilliant." - Choice
See the publisher website: Oxford University Press
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