The Social Science of Cinema

James C. Kaufman and Dean Keith Simonton (Eds.)

New York: Oxford University Press (in press)
 

CONTENTS

The Filmmakers

Writing for Success: Screenplays and Cinematic Impact
Dean Keith Simonton, University of California, Davis, USA

Characteristics of Eminent Writer-Directors
Stephen Pritzker and David McGarva, Saybrook University, California, USA

Managing the Commercial and Artistic Divide between Directors and Producers
Joris J. Ebbers and Nachoem M. Wijnberg, University of Amsterdam Business School, The Netherlands

Networks between Creative Producers
Anne Lincoln, Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA

The Social Embeddedness of Consecration: Hollywood Rewards System
Gino Cattani, New York University, USA
Simone Ferriani, University of Cambridge, UK

The Viewers: Cognitive Approaches

Resolving the Paradox of Film Music Through a Cognitive Narrative Approach to Film Comprehension
Annabel Cohen, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

The Floating Narrative: Juggling Film Scenes in an "Effort after Meaning"
Gerald Cupchik, Garry Leonard, and Michelle Hilscher, University of Toronto-Scarborough, Canada

Film Viewer Competence
Ed S. Tan, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Film through the Human Visual System: Finding Patterns and Limits
Jordan E. DeLong, Kaitlin L. Brunick, and James E. Cutting, Cornell University, USA

The Viewers: Social-Personality Approaches

Personality as Predictor of Movie Uses and Preferences: A Psychographic Approach
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Andrea Kallias Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Responses to and Judgments of Acting on Film
Thalia R. Goldstein, Yale University, USA

The Status of Females in Film
Stacy L. Smith, University of Southern California, USA

The Effects of Movies on Adolescent Smoking and Drinking Behavior
Keilah Worth, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, USA

The Box Office and Awards

Inequality of Box Office Distribution of the Top Ten Films of the Year
Victor Fernandez, Universidad de Oviedo
Victor Ginsburgh, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Juan Prieto-Rodriguez, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Sheila Weyers, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Strategic Assets and Performance across Institutional Environments
Allègre L. Hadida, University of Cambridge, UK

The Impact of Online Consumer Generated Content on Film Industry
Wenjing Duan, George Washington University, DC, USA

Which Nominee Seems Most Likely to Win the Academy Award and Why?
Iain Pardoe, Thompson Rivers University, Canada, and Dean Keith Simonton, University of California, Davis
 

N.B.: The foregoing organization and chapter titles are subject to change between now and the end of production.
 


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