Description
Book SynopsisPassionate Views offers a new approach to our understanding of film and will be of interest to anyone fascinated by the emotional power of motion pictures and their relationship to the central concerns of our lives, as well as by the techniques filmmakers use to move an audience.
Trade ReviewDue to the consistently high quality of the pieces, Passionate Views makes a significant contribution to film studies research. -- Mette Hjort Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Kinds of Films, Kinds of Emotions
Chapter 1. Film, Emotion, and Genre
Chapter 2. Sentiment in Film Viewing
Chapter 3. The Sublime in Cinema
Chapter 4. The Emotional Basis of Film Comedy
Part II: Film Technique, Film Narrative, And Emotion
Chapter 5. Local Emotions, Global Moods, and Film Structure
Chapter 6. Emotions, Cognitions, and Narrative Patterns in Film
Chapter 7. Movie Music as Moving Music: Emotion, Cognition, and the Film Score
Chapter 8. Time and Timing
Part III: Desire, Identification, And Empathy
Chapter 9. Narrative Desire
Chapter 10. Identification and Emotion in Narrative Film
Chapter 11. Gangsters, Cannibals, Aesthetes, or Apparently Perverse Allegiances
Chapter 12. The Scene of Empathy and the Human Face on Film
Notes
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index
