ABSTRACT
Films have a special position within aesthetics due to the fact that film is "total art." Films may use those visual sophistications of color, perspective and so on that characterize visual art. Films, however, may try to provide a subjective tone to visualize how the exterior world may be colored by or is imagined in the embodied brain. The central feature of the most basic and simple stories in films is that they derive their focus and interest from a living being that feels, perceives, and acts. Films are able to simulate characters that interact, feel, and intend in relation to a world that is vividly perceived and illusionistically experienced as a world that enables interaction. The general mechanisms that mold film watching are a continuous flow of audiovisual stimuli entering the ears and the eyes, and analyzed in the visual and acoustic cortices.
