Overview
- Offers the first in-depth analysis of German Film with a Cognitive Studies approach
- Focuses on contemporary German historical films, many of which had broad, international audiences
- Argues that evoking a strong empathic response at both the affective and cognitive levels films can have a lasting impact on viewers
Part of the book series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance (CSLP)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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About this book
This book explores how minds at the movies understand minds in the movies and introduces readers to some fundamental principles of Cognitive Studies—namely conceptual blending, Theory of Mind, and empathy/perspective-taking—through their application to film analysis. A cognitive approach to recent popular historical films demonstrates cinema’s potential to stimulate viewers’ critical thinking about crucial events of the past century. Diverging from the focus on narrative processing in traditional cognitivist theory, this book examines film reception and production in the context of the latest developments in cognitive and social psychology. Turning to German cinema as a case study for this interdisciplinary partnership, Jennifer Marston William offers a fresh look at some internationally successful films of the twenty-first century, including Nowhere in Africa, Goodbye, Lenin!, Sophie Scholl, Downfall, The Lives of Others, and TheBaader-Meinhof Complex.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jennifer Marston William is Professor of German in the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University, USA, where she is affiliated with the interdisciplinary programs in Jewish Studies and Film & Video Studies, and is a founding member of the Center for Cognitive Literary Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cognitive Approaches to German Historical Film
Book Subtitle: Seeing is Not Believing
Authors: Jennifer Marston William
Series Title: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39318-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39317-9Published: 15 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81865-8Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39318-6Published: 07 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-7297
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7300
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 200
Number of Illustrations: 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Cinema and TV, Film Theory, European Culture