Synthesizing recent research on emotion in cognitive psychology and neurology, this study provides a more nuanced understanding of how film evokes emotion. Although the experience of emotion is central to movie-viewing, film studies have not focused on the emotions, relying instead on vague psychoanalytic concepts of desire. This volume describes a grounded approach to analyzing the emotional appeal of a wide variety of films (from Casablanca to Stranger than Paradise, from Renoir to Spielberg), showing how style and narration call upon the viewer's emotion system.
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"...this book provides a comprehensive study of the theories of emotion and successfully defines its 'emotion system' in relation to film structure. It also includes a thorough review of prior studies on the subject..." Journal of Film and Video
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Films evoke broad moods and cue particular emotions that can be broadly shared as well as individually experienced. Although the experience of emotion is central to the viewing of movies, film studies have neglected to focus attention on the emotions, relying instead on vague psychoanalytic concepts of desire. Movies, Emotion, and Mood synthesizes recent research on emotion in cognitive psychology and neurology in an effort to provide a more nuanced understanding of how film evokes emotion.
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Greg M. Smith is a professor of Moving Image Studies in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University.
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filmic emotions, initial emotional orientation, key neurones, coordinated cues, emotion markers, emotion prototypes, emotion system, diegetic present, emotion network, emotion cues, emotion scripts, nondiegetic music, pitiful lines, montage cinema, genre scripts, mood orientation, psychoanalytic film theory, narrational structures, emotional inertia, comic mood, classical narration, rear driven, maternal melodrama, emotional text, emotion episode Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stella Dallas, The Joy Luck Club, Local Hero, The Lower Depths, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Happy Birthday, Torben Grodal, Indiana Jones, Nico Frijda, Odessa Steps, River Club, Strike-ing Out, Couldn't You Read, Jean Renoir, Sergei Eisenstein, The Bulldog New!
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filmic emotions, initial emotional orientation, key neurones, coordinated cues, emotion markers, emotion prototypes, emotion system, diegetic present, emotion network, emotion cues, emotion scripts, nondiegetic music, pitiful lines, montage cinema, genre scripts, mood orientation, psychoanalytic film theory, narrational structures, emotional inertia, comic mood, classical narration, rear driven, maternal melodrama, emotional text, emotion episode Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stella Dallas, The Joy Luck Club, Local Hero, The Lower Depths, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Happy Birthday, Torben Grodal, Indiana Jones, Nico Frijda, Odessa Steps, River Club, Strike-ing Out, Couldn't You Read, Jean Renoir, Sergei Eisenstein, The Bulldog New!
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- The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart by Noel Carroll on 6 pages
- Narration in the Fiction Film by David Bordwell on 4 pages
- Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion by Carl Plantinga in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition by Torben Grodal in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Projecting a Camera: Language-Games in Film Theory by Edward Branigan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) by No?l Carroll in Back Matter
- Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) by No?l Carroll in Back Matter
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