Torben Grodal

Torben Grodal is an author and professor of film studies at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Career
Torben Grodal is a professor emeritus in the department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Grodal has written numerous academic essays about film analysis including his breakthrough work, Moving Pictures - A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition published by the Oxford University Press in 1997. In Moving Pictures Grodal provides a theoretical account of the role of emotions and cognition in producing the aesthetics effects of film and television genres. Over the course of several articles Grodal has developed a model for how humans process film called the PECMA flow - short for "Perception, Emotion, Cognition and Motor Action". In his more expansive book on the topic "Embodied Vision: Evolution, Emotion, Culture and Film" published in 2009 by Oxford University Press, Grodal elaborates on...