Engaging Characters : Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema
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Thrillers, tear jerkers, horror movies, melodramas--like so many movie terms, these genre designations immediately evoke characteristic kinds of emotional response. Yet emotion is a subject that film and literary theory have traditionally dealt with in only the most impressionistic and
tangential fashion. Engaging Characters presents a precise discussion of the varieties of emotional response to films, integrating them into a larger theory of our engagement (or "identification") with characters in both cinematic and literary fictions. Films and filmmakers discussed include The
Accused; Hitchcock (including detailed analyses of The Man Who Knew Too Much [1956] and Saboteur); Godard; Ruiz; Bu~nuel's That Obscure Object of Desire; Dovzhenko's Arsenal and Preminger's Daisy Kenyon; Bresson's L'Argent; Eisenstein's Strike; and Melville's Le Doulos.
Engaging Characters : Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema ,Murray Smith,Oxford University Press, USA,019818347X,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Film - History & Criticism,Identification (Psychology),Literature - Classics / Criticism,Motion picture audiences,Motion pictures,Psychological aspects,Science/Mathematics,Semiotics & Theory,Film, Media, & Performing Arts | Film Studies,Films, cinema,Literary theory,Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
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