The goal of this engaging, readable narrative is to depict the psychological mechanisms filmmakers exploit to manipulate viewers' perception and attention and how the process corresponds to encoding and retrieval of information and to subsequently experienced emotion, all within historical context.
James E. Cutting is a Susan Linn Sage Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at Cornell University, and a Fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image. He has written extensively on artistic canons and how we perceive the world around us. He has also worked in the entertainment industry at the one-time Atari Sunnyvale Research Laboratory.