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Film Structure and the Emotion System
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Synthesizing recent research on emotion in cognitive psychology and neurology, this study provides a more nuanced understanding of how film evokes emotion. Although the experience of emotion is central to movie-viewing, film studies have not focused on the emotions, relying instead on vague psychoanalytic concepts of desire. This volume describes a grounded approach to analyzing the emotional appeal of a wide variety of films (from Casablanca to Stranger than Paradise, from Renoir to Spielberg), showing how style and narration call upon the viewer's emotion system.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521817585
- ISBN-10: 0521817587
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: October 2003
- Dimensions: 9.16 x 6.44 x 0.81 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.14 pounds
- Page Count: 230
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