Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion
Carl R Plantinga
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Description for Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion
Paperback. Passionate Views offers a new approach to our understanding of film and will be of interest to anyone fascinated by the emotional power of motion pictures and their relationship to the central concerns of our lives, as well as by the techniques filmmakers use to move an audience. Editor(s): Plantinga, Carl R.; Smith, Greg M. Num Pages: 302 pages, 23, 23 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
The movie theater has always been a place where people come together to share powerful emotional experiences, from the fear generated by horror films and the anxiety induced by thrillers to the laughter elicited by screwball comedies and the tears precipitated by melodramas. Indeed, the dependability of movies to provide such experiences lies at the center of the medium's appeal and power. Yet cinema's ability to influence, even manipulate, the emotions of the spectator is one of the least-explored topics in film theory today. In Passionate Views, thirteen internationally recognized scholars of film studies, philosophy, and psychology explore ... Read more
The movie theater has always been a place where people come together to share powerful emotional experiences, from the fear generated by horror films and the anxiety induced by thrillers to the laughter elicited by screwball comedies and the tears precipitated by melodramas. Indeed, the dependability of movies to provide such experiences lies at the center of the medium's appeal and power. Yet cinema's ability to influence, even manipulate, the emotions of the spectator is one of the least-explored topics in film theory today. In Passionate Views, thirteen internationally recognized scholars of film studies, philosophy, and psychology explore ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
302
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
441g
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801860119
SKU
V9780801860119
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About Carl R Plantinga
Carl Plantinga is an associate professor of film and director of the Screenwriting and Film Studies Program at Hollins College. Greg M. Smith is an assistant professor of communication studies at Carlow College.
Reviews for Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion
Due to the consistently high quality of the pieces, Passionate Views makes a significant contribution to film studies research.
Mette Hjort Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Mette Hjort Canadian Journal of Film Studies