Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film

Book Overview

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 stergaard'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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319903314
• ISBN13: 9783319903316
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"