Embodied visions : evolution, emotion, culture, and film /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2009]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | 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. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195371314 0195371313 9780195371321 0195371321 9780199870585 0199870586 9780190451646 0190451645 |