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Author:   Catalin Brylla ,  Mette Kramer
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9783030079932

ISBN 10:   3030079937
Pages:   343
Publication Date:   19 January 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Intersecting Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film.- Part I The Mediation of Realities.- 2 A Documentary of the Mind: Self, Cognition and Imagination in Anders  Østergaard’s Films.- 3 Little Voices and Big Spaces: Animated Documentaryand Conceptual Blending Theory.- 4 Documentary Spectatorship and the Navigation of“Difficulty”.- 5 Docudrama and the Cognitive Evaluation of Realism.- 6 The Duties of Documentary in a Post-Truth Society.- Part II Character Engagement.- 7 Characterization and Character Engagement in the Documentary.- 8 The Difficulty of Eliciting Empathy in Documentary.- 9.Fake Pictures, Real Emotions: A Case Study of Art and Craft.- 10 Engaging Animals in Wildlife Documentaries: From Anthropomorphism to Trans-species Empathy.-Part III Emotions and Embodied Experience.-11 Collateral Emotions: Political Web Videos and Divergent Audience Responses.- 12 Slow TV: The Experiential and MultisensoryDocumentary.- 13 Toward a Cognitive Definition of First-Person Documentary.- 14 The Communication of Relational Knowledge in the First-Person Documentary.- Part IV Documentary Practice.- 15 A Social Cognition Approach to Stereotyping in Documentary Practice.- 16 A Cognitive Approach to Producing the Documentary Interview.- 17 Documentary Editing and Distributed Cognition

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This volume ... constitutes the first sustained study of documentary film from a cognitive perspective. ... Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film is a fine step towards the realization of a humanities-straddling cognitive paradigm of making meaning. (Charles Forceville, Leonardo, .leonardo.info, August, 2019)

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Catalin Brylla is Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of West London, UK. Mette Kramer is a lecturer at Copenhagen University, Denmark.

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