The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

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Record Details:

Title:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Date:
1916
Publisher:
New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company
Volume:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Leaf #:
000142
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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CHAPTER VII THE PTJEPOSE OF ABT. We have analyzed the mental functions which are most powerful in the audience of the photoplay. We studied the mere act of perceiving the pictures on the screen, of perceiving their apparently plastic charac- ter, their depth, and their apparent move- ments. We turned then to those psychical acts by which we respond to the per- ceived impressions. In the foreground stood the act of attention, but then we followed the play of associations, of memory, of imagination, of suggestion, and, most import- ant of all, we traced the distribution of inter- est. Finally we spoke of the feelings and emotions with which we accompany the play. Certainly all this does not exhaust the men- tal reactions which arise in our mind when we witness a drama of the film. We have not 133