Passionate Views Film, Cognition, and Emotion

Name: Passionate Views Film, Cognition, and Emotion
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ISBN: 9780801860119

ISBN-10: 0801860113

ISBN-13: 9780801860119

Edition: 1999

Authors: Carl Plantinga, Greg M. Smith

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The movie theater has always been a place where people come together to share powerful emotional experiences, from the fear generated by horror films and the anxiety induced by thrillers to the laughter elicited by screwball comedies and the tears precipitated by melodramas. Indeed, the dependability of movies to provide such experiences lies at the center of the medium's appeal and power. Yet cinema's ability to influence, even manipulate, the emotions of the spectator is one of the least-explored topics in film theory today. In Passionate Views, thirteen internationally recognized scholars of film studies, philosophy, and psychology explore the emotional appeal of the cinema. Employing a…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/23/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946

Bruce Robbins is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, and Culture and The Servant's Hand. He has also edited several collections, the latest of which is Cosmopolitics, with Pheng Cheah.Greg M. Smith teaches media studies at Carlow College in Pittsburgh, PA. He is coediting Passionate Views: Thinking About Film and Emotion.