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Narrative theory and the dynamics of popular movies by Cutting, James E.

“…Popular movies grab and hold our attention. One reason for this is that storytelling is culturally important to us, but another is that general narrative…”
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The afterlife of artists by Cutting, James E

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Large-scale narrative events in popular cinema by Cutting, James E., Armstrong, Kacie L.

“…Most experiments in event perception and cognition have focused on events that are only a few minutes in length, and the previous research on popular movies is…”
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Quicker, Faster, Darker: Changes in Hollywood Film over 75 Years by Cutting, James E, Brunick, Kaitlin L, DeLong, Jordan E, Iricinschi, Catalina, Candan, Ayse

“…We measured 160 English-language films released from 1935 to 2010 and found four changes. First, shot lengths have gotten shorter, a trend also reported by…”
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Sequences in popular cinema generate inconsistent event segmentation by Cutting, James E.

“…Popular movies have an event structure that includes scenes and sequences. Scenes are fashioned to be perceived as smoothly flowing, a feature called…”
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Temporal fractals in movies and mind by Cutting, James E., DeLong, Jordan E., Brunick, Kaitlin L.

“…Fractal patterns are seemingly everywhere. They can be analyzed through Fourier and power analyses, and other methods. Cutting, DeLong, and Nothelfer (2010)…”
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Representing Motion in a Static Image: Constraints and Parallels in Art, Science, and Popular Culture by Cutting, James E

“…Representing motion in a picture is a challenge to artists, scientists, and all other imagemakers. Moreover, it presents a problem that will not go away with…”
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Event segmentation and seven types of narrative discontinuity in popular movies by Cutting, James E.

“…Using a sample of 24 movies I investigate narrative shifts in location, characters, and time frame that do and do not align with viewer segmentations of events…”
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Gustave Caillebotte, French impressionism, and mere exposure by CUTTING, James E

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A Window on Reality: Perceiving Edited Moving Images by Smith, Tim J., Levin, Daniel, Cutting, James E.

“…Edited moving images entertain, inform, and coerce us throughout our daily lives, yet until recently, the way people perceive movies has received little…”
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On the Physical Variables Filmmakers Use to Engage Viewers by Armstrong, Kacie L., Cutting, James E.

“…It is widely acknowledged that people are emotionally affected by movies, but how does the physical structure of movies contribute to emotional engagement? To…”
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Perceiving Event Dynamics and Parsing Hollywood Films by Cutting, James E, Brunick, Kaitlin L, Candan, Ayse

“…We selected 24 Hollywood movies released from 1940 through 2010 to serve as a film corpus. Eight viewers, three per film, parsed them into events, which are…”
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Facial expression, size, and clutter: Inferences from movie structure to emotion judgments and back by Cutting, James E., Armstrong, Kacie L.

“…The perception of facial expressions and objects at a distance are entrenched psychological research venues, but their intersection is not. We were motivated…”
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The evolution of pace in popular movies by Cutting, James E.

“…Movies have changed dramatically over the last 100 years. Several of these changes in popular English-language filmmaking practice are reflected in patterns of…”
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Cryptic Emotions and the Emergence of a Metatheory of Mind in Popular Filmmaking by Cutting, James E., Armstrong, Kacie L.

“…Hollywood movies can be deeply engaging and easy to understand. To succeed in this manner, feature‐length movies employ many editing techniques with strong…”
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Attention and the Evolution of Hollywood Film by Cutting, James E., DeLong, Jordan E., Nothelfer, Christine E.

“…Reaction times exhibit a spectral patterning known as l/f, and these patterns can be thought of as reflecting time-varying changes in attention. We…”
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Ulric Neisser (1928-2012) by Cutting, James E

“…Presents an obituary for Ulric Neisser. Neisser changed the course of psychology. He moved a generation of psychologists in the direction of the field named by…”
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How Light and Motion Bathe the Silver Screen by Cutting, James E.

“…Popular movies are spatiotemporal arrays of light and motion, but almost nothing is known about their distributions across whole films. Psychological research…”
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Mere Exposure and Aesthetic Realism: A Response to Bence Nanay by Cutting, James E

“…Where does the quality of an artwork reside? Is it in the work or in the perceiver and her culture? Belief in the former can be called aesthetic realism, the…”
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RSVP at the movies: dynamic images are remembered better than static images when resources are limited by Candan, Ayse, Cutting, James E., DeLong, Jordan E.

“…We examined whether dynamic images benefit memory when visual resources are limited. Almost all previous research in this area has used static photographs to…”
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