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UNINA9910155277303321 |
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Autore |
William Jennifer Marston |
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Titolo |
Cognitive Approaches to German Historical Film : Seeing is Not Believing / / by Jennifer Marston William |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
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[1st ed. 2017.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (IX, 200 p. 5 illus. in color.) |
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Collana |
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Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance, , 2945-7300 |
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Soggetti |
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Motion picture plays, European |
Motion pictures |
Ethnology - Europe |
Culture |
European Film and TV |
Film Theory |
European Culture |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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.1. Introduction: What this Book is, and is Not -- 2. Conceptual Blending and Imagining Historical Time and Space -- 3. Theory of Mind and the Cinematic Retelling of History -- 4. Perspective-Taking and Empathic Responses to Historical Film -- 5. Epilogue: Examining the Mind’s Eye through the Viewer’s Eye: Implications and Future Directions. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book explores how minds at the movies understand minds in the movies and introduces readers to some fundamental principles of Cognitive Studies—namely conceptual blending, Theory of Mind, and empathy/perspective-taking—through their application to film analysis. A cognitive approach to recent popular historical films demonstrates cinema’s potential to stimulate viewers’ critical thinking about crucial events of the past century. Diverging from the focus on narrative processing in traditional cognitivist theory, this book examines film reception and production in the context of the latest developments in cognitive and social psychology. Turning to German cinema as a case |
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study for this interdisciplinary partnership, Jennifer Marston William offers a fresh look at some internationally successful films of the twenty-first century, including Nowhere in Africa, Goodbye, Lenin!, Sophie Scholl, Downfall, The Lives of Others, and The Baader-Meinhof Complex. |
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