Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator"s Experience

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780520256965



Pagina 262

Jahr 2009

Moving Viewers Through a discussion of mainstream Hollywood films, this title investigates what the author terms "the paradox of negative emotion" and the function of mainstream narratives as ritualistic fantasies. It describes the sensual nature of the movies and shows how film emotions are often elicited for rhetorical purposes. Full description