Blending unconventional film theory with nontraditional psychology to provide a radically different set of critical methods and propositions about cinema, "Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations" looks at film through its communication properties rather than its social or political implications. Drawing on the tenets of James J. Gibson s ecological theory of visual perception, the fifteen essays and forty-one illustrations gathered here by editors Joseph D. Anderson and Barbara Fisher Anderson offer a new understanding of how moving images are seen and understood.
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First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Presents an analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? This book shows how films channel and recast cultural influences for their cinematic purposes.