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Film structure and the emotion system

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Films evoke broad moods and cue particular emotions that can be broadly shared as well as individually experienced. Although the experience of emotion is central to the viewing of movies, film studies have neglected to focus attention on the emotions, relying instead on vague psychoanalytic concepts of desire. Film Structure and the Emotion System synthesizes research on emotion in cognitive psychology and neurology in an effort to provide a more nuanced understanding of how film evokes emotion. Analysing a variety and range of films, including Casablanca and Stranger than Paradise, this book offers a grounded approach to the mechanisms through which films appeal to the human emotions, demonstrating the role of style and narration in this process.

Title Film structure and the emotion system / Greg M. Smith. [electronic resource]
Additional Titles Film Structure & the Emotion System
Publisher Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Creation Date 2003
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
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Contents
1 An Invitation to Feel
2 The Emotion System and Nonprototypical Emotions
3 The Mood-Cue Approach to Filmic Emotion
4 Other Cognitivisms
5 "Couldn't You Read between Those Pitiful Lines?"
6 Strike-ing Out
7 Lyricism and Unevenness
8 Emotion Work
9 "I Was Misinformed "
10 An Invitation to Interpret
APPENDIX The Neurological Basis of Psychoanalytic Film Theory
Notes
Index
Extent 1 online resource (v, 221 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language English
National Library system number 997010709664805171
MARC RECORDS
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