Zacks, Jeffrey M.

Flicker : your brain on movies / Jeffrey M. Zacks. - xi, 342 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-325) 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. Action! -- Cut! -- Bottlenecks, spotlights, and chunks -- Sleight of hand -- Virtual futures -- Epilogue.

9780199982875 (cloth : acidfree paper)

2014013120


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

PN1995.9.A8 / Z33 2014

791.4301/9