03123nam 2200649Ia 450 991046489620332120210623221751.01-282-77262-797866127726270-520-94391-010.1525/9780520943919(CKB)3390000000007008(EBL)837157(OCoLC)773564868(SSID)ssj0000439851(PQKBManifestationID)11295127(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439851(PQKBWorkID)10464365(PQKB)10804175(MiAaPQ)EBC837157(OCoLC)670278205(MdBmJHUP)muse30322(DE-B1597)519054(DE-B1597)9780520943919(Au-PeEL)EBL837157(CaPaEBR)ebr10675731(CaONFJC)MIL277262(EXLCZ)99339000000000700820080811d2009 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrMoving viewers[electronic resource] American film and the spectator's experience /Carl PlantingaBerkeley University of California Pressc20091 online resource (295 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-25695-6 0-520-25696-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction: Affect and the Movies --1. Pleasures, Desires, Fantasies --2. Movies and Emotions --3. Stories and Sympathies --4. The Sensual Medium --5. Affective Trajectories and Synesthesia --6. Negative Emotions and Sympathetic Narratives --7. The Rhetoric of Emotion --Conclusion: Moving Viewers --Notes --Bibliography --IndexEveryone 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.Motion picture audiencesPsychologyMotion picturesUnited StatesElectronic books.Motion picture audiencesPsychology.Motion pictures302.23/43Plantinga Carl R772726MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464896203321Moving viewers1728416UNINA