The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact
- ISBN-10
- 0307489736
- ISBN-13
- 9780307489739
- Series
- The Power of Movies
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-12-10
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Colin McGinn
Description
How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking “into” a movie screen allow us to experience the thoughts and feelings of a movie’s characters? These and related questions are at the heart of The Power of Movies, a thoughtful, invigorating, and remarkably accessible book about a phenomenon seemingly beyond reach of our understanding. Colin McGinn–“an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes like a dream,” according to Steven Pinker–enhances our understanding of both movies and ourselves in this book of rare and refreshing insight.
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