Cover
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
7. Three Views of Facial Expression and Its Understandingin the Cinema
8. 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
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