Zacks, Jeffrey M.

Flicker : your brain on movies / Jeffrey M. Zacks. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

From up on a screen to inside your head. Your brain wasn't built for movies -- The movie in your head -- Tearjerkers and sitcoms -- How movies make memories -- The dark side -- The tricks that make movies work. Motion! -- Cut! -- Bottlenecks, spotlights, and chunks -- Sleight of hand -- Virtual futures -- Epilog.



9780199982882


Motion picture audiences--Psychology.
Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.
Emotions.
Cognition.


Electronic Books.

PN1995 / .F553 2014