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

Plantinga, Carl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520256964 ISBN 13 : 9780520256965

Editeur : University of California Press, 2009

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520256964
• ISBN 13: 9780520256965
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
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