Flicker: Your Brain on Movies by Zacks, Jeffrey

Flicker: Your Brain on Movies

How is it that a patch of flickering light on a wall can produce experiences that engage...
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Author: Jeffrey Zacks
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Flicker: Your Brain on Movies by Zacks, Jeffrey

Flicker: Your Brain on Movies

$76.90

Flicker: Your Brain on Movies

$76.90
Author: Jeffrey Zacks
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
How is it that a patch of flickering light on a wall can produce experiences that engage our imaginations and can feel totally real? From the vertigo of a skydive to the emotional charge of an unexpected victory or defeat, movies give us some of our most vivid experiences and most lasting memories. They reshape our emotions and worldviews--but why?

In Flicker, Jeff Zacks delves into the history of cinema and the latest research to explain what happens between your ears when you sit down in the theatre and the lights go out. Some of the questions Flicker answers: Why do we flinch when Rocky takes a punch in Sylvester Stallone's movies, duck when the jet careens towards the tower in Airplane, and tap our toes to the dance numbers in Chicago or Moulin Rouge? Why do so many of us cry at the movies? What's the difference between remembering what happened in a movie and what happened in real life--and can we always tell the difference? To answer these questions and more, Flicker gives us an engaging, fast-paced look at what happens in your head when you watch a movie.


Author: Jeffrey Zacks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/01/2014
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780199982875


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 119
Chronicle of Higher Education 02/06/2015 pg. 19
Choice 06/01/2015 pg. 1665

About the Author

Jeffrey M. Zacks, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis.

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