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How Screen and Mind Interact
Pantheon
December 2005
224 pages
ISBN: 0375423176
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
With enthusiasm and probing intelligence, Colin McGinn (“an
ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes
like a dream”–Steven Pinker) embarks on a fascinating
philosophical consideration of the allure of movies–what it
is we experience when we watch them and what makes them such
a universally compelling form of entertainment. McGinn examines how movies work on our minds: how looking
“into” the movie screen allows us to imagine the characters
portrayed and know their thoughts and feelings . . . how
what we see on the screen can seem to recapitulate the
workings of consciousness itself . . . how the screen image
is ideally suited to capturing both physical and emotional
movements, depicting human feeling in all its variations . .
. how heightened reality characterizes both film narrative
and dreams . . . how our connection to and perception of
movies enables us to better understand aspects of our own
nature. A fresh, invigorating look into the art of film and the
minds of filmmakers and filmgoers, The Power of Movies is
certain to change the way you watch movies.
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