I Dream of J.J., or Affordances and Motion Pictures.

Anderson, Joseph D.

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ERIC Number: EJ504880

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Publication Date: 1995

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I Dream of J.J., or Affordances and Motion Pictures.

Anderson, Joseph D.

Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, v5 n1 Apr 1995

Categorizes attempts to account for how viewers garner meanings from motion pictures as either semiotic, realist, or conventionalist. Proposes an alternative explanation based on J. J. Gibson's ecological theory of perception. Offers his concept of "affordances" as the key to an explanation of how meanings in motion pictures are generated and constrained. (RS)

Descriptors: Comprehension, Films, Higher Education, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role, Semiotics

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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