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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.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Affect and the Movies 1. Pleasures, Desires, Fantasies 2. Movies and Emotions 3. Stories and Sympathies 4. The Sensual Medium 5. Affective Trajectories and Synesthesia 6. Negative Emotions and Sympathetic Narratives 7. The Rhetoric of Emotion: Disgust and Beyond Conclusion: Moving Viewers Notes Bibliography Index

Moving Viewers

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 08/04/2009
      ISBN13: 9780520256965, 978-0520256965
      ISBN10: 0520256964
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Affect and the Movies 1. Pleasures, Desires, Fantasies 2. Movies and Emotions 3. Stories and Sympathies 4. The Sensual Medium 5. Affective Trajectories and Synesthesia 6. Negative Emotions and Sympathetic Narratives 7. The Rhetoric of Emotion: Disgust and Beyond Conclusion: Moving Viewers Notes Bibliography Index

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