{"product_id":"empathic-screen-cinema-and-neuroscience-9780198793533","title":"Empathic Screen: Cinema and Neuroscience","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Vittorio Gallese | Michele Guerra | Frances Anderson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Cognitive Neuroscience \u0026amp; Cognitive Neuropsychology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe 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, \u003cem\u003e The Empathic Screen\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Shining\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Silence of the Lambs\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eToy Story\u003c\/em\u003e, and explore the great directors from the classical period to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford Univ PR","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46864468607127,"sku":"9780198793533","price":6828.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198793533.webp?v=1769974432","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/empathic-screen-cinema-and-neuroscience-9780198793533","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}