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Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming-Animated

Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming-Animated

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Film StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138483591
ISBN13: 9781138483590
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 12 2019
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in case studies from animation, video games, and virtual worlds.

As we interact more and more with animated characters and avatars in everyday media consumption, it has become vital to investigate the ways that animated environments influence our perception of the liberal humanist subject. This book is the first to apply recent research on the application of the embodied mind thesis to our understanding of embodied engagement with nonhumans and cyborgs in animated media, analyzing works by Émile Cohl, Hayao Miyazaki, Tim Burton, Norman McLaren, the Quay Brothers, Pixar, and many others. Drawing on the breakthroughs of modern brain science to argue that animated media broadens the viewer's perceptual reach, this title offers a welcome contribution to the growing literature at the intersection of cognitive studies and film studies, with a perspective on animation that is new and original.

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