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Moving viewers [[electronic resource] ] : American film and the spectator's experience / / Carl Plantinga



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Autore: Plantinga Carl R Visualizza persona
Titolo: Moving viewers [[electronic resource] ] : American film and the spectator's experience / / Carl Plantinga Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
Disciplina: 302.23/43
Soggetto topico: Motion picture audiences - Psychology
Motion pictures - United States
Soggetto non controllato: american film
audience theory
cinema and film
cognitive science
cultural studies
desires
emotional experience
film criticism
film studies
film
hollywood films
mainstream narratives
media studies
movie criticism
movie studies
movie watching
movies and emotions
movies
moving viewers
negative emotions
philosophical aesthetics
pleasures
psychology of spectatorship
ritualistic fantasy
sensual films
spectators
sympathetic narratives
synesthesia
the paradox of negative emotion
watching a movie
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Moving viewers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-77262-7
9786612772627
0-520-94391-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788998403321
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