Moving Pictures - A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition (Electronic book text)

Introduction PART I 1. Fiction, Symbolic Simulation, and Reality 2. Cognition, Emotion, Brain Processes, and Narration 3. Associative Networks, Focus of Attention, and Analogue Communication PART II 4. Cognitive Identification and Empathy 5. Intentions, Will, Goal, Consciousness, and Humanness 6. Subjectivity, Causality, and Time PART III 7. A Typology of Genres of Fiction PART IV 8. Comic Fictions 9. Metaframes as Emotion Filters and Brackets 10. Crime and Horror Fiction 11. Melodrama, Lyrics, and Autonomic Response Recapitulation and Conclusion Glossary of Terms Bibliography