Spectacular Spider-Man by Paul Jenkins

Spectacular Spider-Man by Paul Jenkins

Psychology is often regarded as the gloomy science of maladjustment. Here we are looking at how psychological theory can help us understand a common, everyday behavior, going to the movies. We investigate what psychologists and media scholars have discovered about how we choose a movie to see, how we process the sounds and images of movies, and how movies may influence our behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs after we leave the theater or turn off the screen. And we try to point out areas where further work is necessary and where new concepts, such as awe and aesthetic pleasure may be introduced to help further understanding. We consider how relatively permanent personality variables, our changeable moods, and the people we are with affect these processes. Each of the eight chapters uses one film that helps illuminate the central issues of one substantive area of psychology. For example, on the topic of mood and emotion, we use the 1997 film Life is Beautiful>/I> to help understand both why psychologists seem perplexed that people like sad movies, as well as why that may be.]

Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and former artist. He has won critical acclaim, including five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books.

Starting out with crime and noir comics, Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work. With Bill Jemas and Mark Millar, Bendis was the primary architect of the Ultimate Marvel Universe, launching Ultimate Spider-Man in 2000, on which he continues as writer to the present day. He relaunched the Avengers franchise with New Avengers in 2004, and has also written the Marvel event storylines Secret War (2004), House of M (2005), Secret Invasion (2008), Siege (2010) and Age of Ultron (2013).

In addition to writing comics, he has also worked in television, video games and film, and taught writing at Portland State University. He will begin teaching at University of Oregon starting in Fall 2013, and his book Words for Pictures will be out in Spring 2014 from Random House

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780785111696
ISBN 10	0785111697
Title	Spectacular Spider-Man
Author	Paul Jenkins
Series	Spider Man Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Year published	2004-03-01
Number of pages	120
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