With far more creative and expressive potential than communication via conventional signs
and codes, although also incorporating these, we have seen that filmmaking may be aptly …

Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry
has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive …

The topic of this book is aesthetic evaluation, and its application to film. What is meant by
'aesthetic evaluation'will become clear as the book proceeds because explicating the topic …

The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet
complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong's filmmaking techniques uses a poetics …

Enacting the Worlds of Cinema offers a substantial reconfiguration of the textual roots of
modern film narratology. By giving sustained attention to cinema's material-affective modes …

What is the nature and function of sound design in cinematic media? Is it possible for the
styling of sound to create meaning? Is there art in noise? is chapter departs from standard …

This article advances an affect-based theorization of genre as atmospheric assemblage by
applying such a framework to an analysis of videogame genre. The affective excess …

The affective content of a movie is often considered to be largely determined by its style and
aesthetics. Recently, studies have attempted to estimate affective movie content with …

This article provides a meta-theoretical overview of the central research questions, concepts,
and lines of conflict at the nexus between media and emotions. It interrogates key terms …