The Empathic Screen: Cinema and Neuroscience

by Michele Guerra and Vittorio Gallese

Book Overview

Why 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?

We 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198793537
• ISBN13: 9780198793533
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"