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“stephen lowry”

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  • Characters in Film and Other Media

    Theory, Analysis, Interpretation

    by Jens Eder ...
    Translated by Stephen Lowry ...
    Characters are central to the creation and experience of films and other media. Their cultural significance is profound, but they also raise a wide range of questions.This book provides a comprehensive theory that guides the analysis and interpretation of characters across four dimensions: as represented beings with physical, psychological, and social characteristics; as artefacts with aesthetic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

    Edited by David Herman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception

    by Bence Nanay ...
    Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring the discussion of aesthetics and perception together. Bence Nanay ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Lessons in Perception

    The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist

    by Paul Taberham ...
    Narrative comprehension, memory, motion, depth perception, synesthesia, hallucination, and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists. They have also been among the most potent sources of creative inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception melds film theory and cognitive science in a stimulating investigation of the work of iconic experimental ... Read more

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  • Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices

    Edited by Dee Reynolds ...
    A key interdisciplinary concept in our understanding of social interaction across creative and cultural practices, kinesthetic empathy describes the ability to experience empathy merely by observing the movements of another human being. Encouraging readers to sidestep the methodological and disciplinary boundaries associated with the arts and sciences, Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Storyworlds across Media

    Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology

    Edited by Marie-Laure Ryan, Prof. Jan-Noël Thon ...
    Series series Frontiers of Narrative
    The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media—everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video games—is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and society. Storyworlds across Media explores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Philosophy of Cinematic Art

    by Berys Gaut ...
    A Philosophy of Cinematic Art is a systematic study of cinema as an art form, showing how the medium conditions fundamental features of cinematic artworks. It discusses the status of cinema as an art form, whether there is a language of film, realism in cinema, cinematic authorship, intentionalist and constructivist theories of interpretation, cinematic narration, the role of emotions in responses ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • With Bodies

    Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition

    by Marco Caracciolo, Karin Kukkonen ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    We read not only with our eyes and minds, but with our entire body. In With Bodies, Marco Caracciolo and Karin Kukkonen move systematically through all elements of narrative and put them into dialogue with recent research in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, and philosophy of mind to investigate what it means to read literary narratives bodily. They draw their findings ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Neuro-Image

    A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture

    by Patricia Pisters ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Arguing that today's viewers move through a character's brain instead of looking through his or her eyes or mental landscape, this book approaches twenty-first-century globalized cinema through the concept of the "neuro-image." Pisters explains why this concept has emerged now, and she elaborates its threefold nature through research from three domains—Deleuzian (schizoanalytic) philosophy, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Aesthetics on the Edge

    Where Philosophy Meets the Human Sciences

    by Dominic McIver Lopes ...
    Philosophers say what art is and then scientists and then other scholars study how we are equipped, cognitively and socially, to make art and appreciate it. This time-honoured approach will not work. Recent science reveals that we have poor intuitive access to artistic and aesthetic phenomena. Dominic McIver Lopes argues for a new approach that mandates closer integration, from the start, between ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film

    Edited by Paisley Livingston, Carl Plantinga ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film is the first comprehensive volume to explore the main themes, topics, thinkers and issues in philosophy and film. The Companion features sixty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars and is divided into four clear parts:• issues and concepts• authors and trends• genres• film as philosophy.Part one is a comprehensive section ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Narrative Brain

    The Stories Our Neurons Tell

    by Fritz Alwin Breithaupt ...
    An investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tellAs humans, we think in stories—stories that allow us to feel and share emotions. In order for this phenomenon to work, our brains and the ways in which we tell stories must be attuned to each other. But how exactly does this happen?Tapping into the essence of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD