Professor of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley

• Table of Contents ; Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Preface ; Arthur P. Shimamura ; 1. Psychocinematics: Issues and Directions ; Arthur P. Shimamura ; Part I. Philosophical Foundations ; 2. The Viewer's Share: Models of Mind in Explaining Film ; David Bordwell ; 3. Cognitivism, Psychology, and Neuroscience: Movies as Attentional Engines ; Noel Carroll & William P. Seeley ; 4. Toward an Ecology of the Arts ; Joseph D. Anderson ; 5. The Affective Power of Movies ; Carl Plantinga ; Part II. Sensory and Attentional Features of Movies ; 6. Sensing Motion in Movies ; Katherine J. Thomson-Jones ; 7. Low-Level Features of Film: What They Are and Why We Would Be Lost Without Them ; Kaitlin L. Brunick, James E. Cutting, & Jordan E. DeLong ; 8. Truth, Lies, and Meaning in Slow Motion Images ; Sheena Rogers ; 9. Watching You Watch Movies: Using Eye Tracking to Inform Film Theory ; Tim J. Smith ; Part III. Knowledge, Imagination, and Narratives ; 10. Hollywood Storytelling and Aesthetic Pleasure ; Todd Berliner ; 11. The Art of Simplifying Events ; Stephan Schwan ; 12. Constructing Event Representations During Film Comprehension ; Jeffrey M. Zacks ; 13. Belief, Desire, Action, and Other Stuff: Theory of Mind in Movies ; Daniel T. Levin, Alicia M. Hymel, & Lewis Baker ; Part IV. Driving Emotions With Movies ; 14. How Cues on the Screen Prompt Emotions in the Mind ; Keith Oatley ; 15. E-Motion Pictures of the Brain: Recursive Paths between Affective Neuroscience and Film Studies ; Gal Raz, Boaz Hagin, & Talma Hendler ; 16. Emotion Regulation by Switching between Modes of Reception ; Monika Suckfull ; 17. The Empathic Animal Meets the Inquisitive Animal in the Cinema: Notes on a Psychocinematics of Mind Reading ; Ed Tan ; Index

Psychocinematics is a heroic start at bringing the worlds of psychology and cinema - too long estranged from one another - back together.