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Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations
Author(s): Joseph D Anderson (Author), Barbara Fisher Anderson (Author), David Bordwell (Foreword)
- Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
- Publication Date: 1 Feb. 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 0809325993
- ISBN-13: 9780809325993
Book Description
Looks at film through its communication properties rather than its social or political implications. Drawing on the tenets of James J. Gibson’s ecological theory of visual perception, the 15 essays and 41 illustrations gathered here offer a new understanding of how moving images are seen and understood.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The editors have assembled a distinguished cast of empirical researchers and film theorists to explore, within a naturalistic framework, the ways moving images mesh with our minds. Every essay teems with insights and fruitful suggestions for further reflection and experiment.”―David Bordwell, from the Foreword
About the Author
Joseph D. Anderson is the chair of the Mass Communication and Theatre Department at the University of Central Arkansas. The director of the Center for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, he is the author of The Reality of Illusion: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Film Theory.
Barbara Fisher Anderson, managing director of the Center for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, is coauthor of “The Case for an Ecological Metatheory” in Post Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies.
Barbara Fisher Anderson, managing director of the Center for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, is coauthor of “The Case for an Ecological Metatheory” in Post Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies.
