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Cultural Psychology of Cinema
Rieber, Robert W.; Kelly, Robert J.
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Description for Cultural Psychology of Cinema
Hardcover. This book demonstrates how social distress or anxiety is reflected, modified, and evolves through movies. It shows how film is a perfect medium for generating and projecting dreams, fantasies, and nightmares, on the individual as well as the societal level. Num Pages: 188 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 434.
This book demonstrates how social distress or anxiety is reflected, modified, and evolves through the medium of the motion picture. Tracing cinema from its earliest forms, the authors show how film is a perfect medium for generating and projecting dreams, fantasies, and nightmares, on the individual as well as the societal level. Arising at the same time as Freud’s influential ideas, cinema has been intertwined with the wishes and fears of the greater culture and has served as a means of experiencing those feelings in a communal and taming environment. From Munsterberg’s original pronouncements in the early 20th century about the ... Read more
This book demonstrates how social distress or anxiety is reflected, modified, and evolves through the medium of the motion picture. Tracing cinema from its earliest forms, the authors show how film is a perfect medium for generating and projecting dreams, fantasies, and nightmares, on the individual as well as the societal level. Arising at the same time as Freud’s influential ideas, cinema has been intertwined with the wishes and fears of the greater culture and has served as a means of experiencing those feelings in a communal and taming environment. From Munsterberg’s original pronouncements in the early 20th century about the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
181
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461471745
SKU
V9781461471745
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Reviews for Cultural Psychology of Cinema
From the reviews: "...any treatise on film or television themes is necessarily psychological. This is true of the book Film, Television and the Psychology of the Social Dream by Robert W. Rieber and Robert J. Kelly, and its title appears to emphasize the social psychology of film and television as shared experiences." Lauren S. Seifert PsycCRITIQUES September 8, 2014, ... Read more