Cognitive Media Theory

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Edited by Ted Nannicelli and Paul Taberham

Type: Studies
Subject: Theory
Keywords: theory
Publishing date: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Collection: AFI Film Readers
Language: English

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Paperback • 358 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-415-62987-4

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Book Presentation:
Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive Media Theory takes up this question in the context of film and media studies. This collection of essays by internationally recognized researchers in film and media studies, psychology, and philosophy offers film and media scholars and advanced students an introduction to contemporary cognitive media theory—an approach to the study of diverse media forms and content that draws upon both the methods and explanations of the sciences and the humanities. Exploring topics that range from color perception to the moral appraisal of characters to our interactive engagement with videogames, Cognitive Media Theory showcases the richness and diversity of cognitivist research. This volume will be of interest not only to students and scholars of film and media, but to anyone interested in the possibility of a productive relationship between the sciences and humanities.

About the authors:
Ted Nannicelli is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of A Philosophy of the Screenplay.
Paul Taberham is Lecturer in Animation Studies at Arts University Bournemouth. He has published in Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, Animation Journal and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory.

Press Reviews:
"Cognitive Media Theory is a rich, rigorous, and generous-minded publication that deserves to be widely read. The volume is clearly the result of careful planning and detail-minded editing... It is worth noting that this is a book that manages that rarest of academic hat-tricks: an intervention at the highest level of professional scholarly work, the volume is also pedagogically relevant, with many of the chapters lending themselves to inclusion in the "required" or "further reading" categories of advanced undergraduate and graduate courses."

- Mette Hjort, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

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