LEADER 03652nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910452699603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8093-8757-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000001106340 035 $a(EBL)1354661 035 $a(OCoLC)855906251 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001101262 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11985898 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001101262 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11067312 035 $a(PQKB)11555741 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1354661 035 $a(OCoLC)607500279 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30105 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1354661 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10739203 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL506698 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001106340 100 $a20040629d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMoving image theory$b[electronic resource] $eecological considerations /$fedited by Joseph D. Anderson and Barbara Fisher Anderson ; with a foreword by David Bordwell 210 $aCarbondale $cSouthern Illinois University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8093-2746-5 311 $a1-299-75447-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preliminary Considerations; Part One. Information Available in Moving Images; 1. Perceiving Scenes in Film and in the World; 2. The Value of Oriented Geometry for Ecological Psychology and Moving Image Art; Part Two. Perception of Simulated Human Motion; 3. Creating Realistic Motion; 4. Perceiving Human Motion in Synthesized Images; Part Three. Acoustic Events; 5. Background Tracks in Recent Cinema; 6. Acoustic Specification of Object Properties; Part Four. Information in Facial Expression 327 $a7. Three Views of Facial Expression and Its Understandingin the Cinema8. Facial Motion as a Cue to Identity; Part Five. Coupling of Perception and Emotion; 9. Film Lighting and Mood; 10. Cinematic Creation of Emotion; Part Six. Appeals of Reality-Based Moving Images; 11. Documentary's Peculiar Appeals; 12. Reality Programming: Evolutionary Models of Film and Television Viewership; Part Seven. Events, Symbols, and Metaphors; 13. Through Alice's Glass: The Creation and Perception of Other Worlds in Movies, Pictures, and Virtual Reality; 14. Metaphors in Movies; Contributors; Index; Back Cover 330 $aBlending unconventional film theory with nontraditional psychology to provide a radically different set of critical methods and propositions about cinema, Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations looks at film through its communication properties rather than its social or political implications. Drawing on the tenets of James J. Gibson's ecological theory of visual perception, the fifteen essays and forty-one illustrations gathered here by editors Joseph D. Anderson and Barbara Fisher Anderson offer a new understanding of how moving images are seen and understood.