Film Structure and the Emotion System
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- Author: Greg M. Smith, Georgia State University
- Date Published: May 2007
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- isbn: 9780521037358
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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.
Read more- Demonstrates how to analyse the emotional appeals of a wide range of film genres, styles and national cinemas
- Provides much more specific descriptions of filmic emotion than previous psychoanalytically based accounts
- Uses specific films as case studies for cognitive response
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"...this book provides a comprehensive study of the theories of emotion and successfully defines its 'emotion system' in relation to film structure. It also includes a thorough review of prior studies on the subject..." Journal of Film and Video
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- Date Published: May 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521037358
- length: 232 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.358kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Developing the Approach:
1. An invitation to feel
2. The emotion system and nonprototypical emotions
3. The mood-cue approach to filmic emotion
4. Other cognitivisms
Part II. Analyzing Emotional Appeals in Film:
5. 'Couldn't you read between those pitiful lines?': feeling for Stella Dallas
6. Strike-ing out: the partial success of early Eisenstein's emotional appeal
7. Lyricism and unevenness: emotional transitions in Renoir's A Day in the Country and The Lower Depths
8. Emotion work: The Joy Luck Club and the limits of the emotion system
9. 'I was misinformed': nostalgia and uncertainty in Casablanca
Part III. Afterword:
10. An invitation to interpret
Appendix: the neurological basis of psychoanalytic film theory: Metz's emotional debt to Freud the biologist
Notes
Index.
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