The Matter of Vision : Affective Neurobiology and Cinema.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword: War of the Word -- The Matter of Vision -- Chapter 1 The Matter of Vision -- LCR v VAE -- Vision -- The Wisdom of Vision -- The articulation of Vision -- The Automatic -- Emotion -- Affective Neurobiology (ANB) -- Reverse-Engineering Cinema -- Kuleshov &amp -- Gazzaniga -- Cinema and Language -- The Long Shadow of Immanuel Kant -- Real Materialism -- New Empiricism -- The Anti-Science tradition -- Vision, Emotion, Cinema: A Summary -- Vision: -- Emotion: -- Cinema: -- The Matter of Vision: A Summary -- Chapter 2 The Matter of Vision: Aphorisms -- Propositions -- Extensions -- Cinema -- Chapter 3 Commentaries -- Life/Change/Movement/Cinema -- Movement and the Eye -- Survival and the Brain -- Emotion and the Brain -- Genetic to Cultural evolution -- Emotion &amp -- Survival -- Emotion and Reason -- Language, Consciousness and Reason -- Language, the Word and Logocentrism -- Thought takes place only in Vision -- Logocentrism -- Consciousness -- Consciousness and the Unconscious -- Automatic/Unconscious -- An Independent Term -- Freud and the unconscious -- Dream Science -- Darwin's List -- Survival -- Survival and shopping -- Rationalise &amp -- Reason -- Self-image &amp -- Survival -- Reason -- Vision -- In the service of Vision -- The quality of Vision -- Left brain/Right brain -- The Logic of Nature -- Art &amp -- Science : Aesthetics &amp -- Brain Function -- Metaphor -- Narrative -- Identification and Shared Circuits -- Art &amp -- Science: Emotion -- Plasticity of the brain -- Emotion and the Automatic -- Chapter 4 Cinema -- Cinema: a revaluation -- Cinema as Vision plus -- Cinema as Pure Sequence -- A Classical Art -- Science, Theory &amp -- Cinema -- Cinema: Status v Power -- Language, Vision and the Brain -- Neurobiology and Cinema: A New Theory of Cinema -- The Eye and movement.

The brain and movement: emotion -- Narrative and neuroscience -- Mirror Neurons and Cinema -- Shared Circuits and Cinema -- The Automatic: Consciousness downgraded, the Automatic upgraded -- The Classic Hollywood Cinema: a pinnacle of the medium -- Classicism &amp -- Genius -- Evolution, Culture and the Classic Hollywood Cinema -- Neurology and Narrative: Why Narrative? -- Anti-narrative? -- Narrative, CHC and Cultural Evolution -- Evolution and Classical Form -- Hollywood 1939-1964 -- Ideal Form -- Cultural Evolution -- Hollywood and Nature -- Cultural Evolution &amp -- Classic Hollywood -- The evolutionary process -- Biology, evolution, culture, cinema -- Evolution of film form -- Evolution example: Cutting on Action -- Creative Geography -- 'Creative geography' and cultural evolution -- The Screenplay and the Ideal Film -- Blue Jasmine &amp -- the Ideal Script -- Classical aesthetics and the Ideal Script -- Aesthetic cohererence &amp -- integration: Marnie -- The Ideal Screenplay - a Perfect Engine of Meaning -- The Genius of the System -- The Affective: Making Emotion Visible -- ANB &amp -- Cinema: The Campaign for Real Science -- Affective Neurobiology &amp -- Cinema: Summary -- A Theory of Cinema: 10 points: -- Chapter 5 On method -- Epistemology -- A lesson from film-making -- Essays -- Formal v Informal knowledge -- A Return to Nature -- A Lesson for Kant -- Expansive Materialism -- The limits of materialism &amp -- metaphysics -- A Practice of Film Theory -- Confessions of a Convert -- Left/Right brain - Science &amp -- Philosophy -- Endnote -- Bibliography &amp -- Filmography -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

In The Matter of Vision, Wyeth seeks to redress this oversight by grounding his analysis in neuroscience and evolutionary biology, finding herein the potential for a qualitatively superior understanding of the cinematic medium.

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