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Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience - Softcover

Plantinga, Carl

 
9780520256965: Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520256964 ISBN 13: 9780520256965
Verlag: University of California Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Everyone knows the thrill of being transported by a film, but what is it that makes movie watching such a compelling emotional experience? In Moving Viewers, Carl Plantinga explores this question and the implications of its answer for aesthetics, the psychology of spectatorship, and the place of movies in culture. Through an in-depth discussion of mainstream Hollywood films, Plantinga investigates what he terms "the paradox of negative emotion" and the function of mainstream narratives as ritualistic fantasies. He describes the sensual nature of the movies and shows how film emotions are often elicited for rhetorical purposes. He uses cognitive science and philosophical aesthetics to demonstrate why cinema may deliver a similar emotional charge for diverse audiences.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Carl Plantinga is Professor of Film Studies at Calvin College. He is the author of Rhetoric and Representation in Non-Fiction Film and the coeditor of Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion.

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520256964
ISBN 13 
9780520256965
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
294
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