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Engaging Characters Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema

Smith Murray
Heftet / 1995 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198183471
Published
1995
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
436 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
155 mm
Thickness
16 mm
Age
U, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
276

Author
Smith Murray

Biographical note

Smith has contributed to a number of journals in media studies and literary criticism, ranging from Screen to The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He lives in London, SE13.

Engaging Characters Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema

Smith Murray
Heftet / 1995 / Engelsk
Smith Murray
Heftet / 1995 / Engelsk
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offers here a very detailed and well-informed survey of terrain of a sort that the more squarely philosophical contributions to the discussion have by and large ignored...Smith is very good./Alex Neill/The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

Welcome and important book ... considerable value of this book ... It develops an original, complex, articulated theory and fruitfully applies it to a wide variety of films ... an impressive work that in its lucidity and careful argumentation sets intellectual standards that most current film theory does not come even close to matching.

Berys Gaut, University of St Andrews, British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 37, No. 1, Jan '97

Thrillers, weepies, horror movies, and melodramas evoke characteristic kinds of emotional response, yet emotion is not much examined by film or literary theory. Engaging Characters discusses emotional responses to films, integrating them into a theory of engagement (`identification') with characters in cinematic and literary fictions. Films and filmmakers discussed include The Accused; Hitchcock (including detailed analyses of The Man Who Knew Too Much and Saboteur); Godard; Ruiz; Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire; Dovzhenko's Arsenal; Preminger's Daisy Kenyon; Bresson's L'Argent; Eisenstein's Strike; and Melville's Le Doulos.
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Thrillers, horror movies and melodramas evoke characteristic kinds of emotional response, yet emotion is not much examined by film or literary theory. This work discusses emotional responses to films, integrating them into a theory of identification with characters in films and literature.
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offers here a very detailed and well-informed survey of terrain of a sort that the more squarely philosophical contributions to the discussion have by and large ignored...Smith is very good./Alex Neill/The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

Welcome and important book ... considerable value of this book ... It develops an original, complex, articulated theory and fruitfully applies it to a wide variety of films ... an impressive work that in its lucidity and careful argumentation sets intellectual standards that most current film theory does not come even close to matching.

Berys Gaut, University of St Andrews, British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 37, No. 1, Jan '97

Thrillers, weepies, horror movies, and melodramas evoke characteristic kinds of emotional response, yet emotion is not much examined by film or literary theory. Engaging Characters discusses emotional responses to films, integrating them into a theory of engagement (`identification') with characters in cinematic and literary fictions. Films and filmmakers discussed include The Accused; Hitchcock (including detailed analyses of The Man Who Knew Too Much and Saboteur); Godard; Ruiz; Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire; Dovzhenko's Arsenal; Preminger's Daisy Kenyon; Bresson's L'Argent; Eisenstein's Strike; and Melville's Le Doulos.
Read more
Thrillers, horror movies and melodramas evoke characteristic kinds of emotional response, yet emotion is not much examined by film or literary theory. This work discusses emotional responses to films, integrating them into a theory of identification with characters in films and literature.
Read more

Product details

ISBN
9780198183471
Published
1995
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
436 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
155 mm
Thickness
16 mm
Age
U, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
276

Author
Smith Murray

Biographical note

Smith has contributed to a number of journals in media studies and literary criticism, ranging from Screen to The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He lives in London, SE13.

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