Film Structure and the Emotion System (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521037358)

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.

Author: Greg M. Smith
ISBN-10: 0521037352
ISBN-13: 9780521037358
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/24/2007
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d