Moving Viewers

American Film and the Spectator's Experience

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de Carl Plantinga

Type

Studies

Sujet

Sociology

Mots Clés

attraction, viewer

Année d'édition

2009

Editeur

University of California Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 296 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-520-25696-5

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Everyone knows the thrill of being transported by a film, but what is it that makes movie watching such a compelling emotional experience? In Moving Viewers, Carl Plantinga explores this question and the implications of its answer for aesthetics, the psychology of spectatorship, and the place of movies in culture. Through an in-depth discussion of mainstream Hollywood films, Plantinga investigates what he terms "the paradox of negative emotion" and the function of mainstream narratives as ritualistic fantasies. He describes the sensual nature of the movies and shows how film emotions are often elicited for rhetorical purposes. He uses cognitive science and philosophical aesthetics to demonstrate why cinema may deliver a similar emotional charge for diverse audiences.

À propos de l'auteur :
Carl Plantinga is Professor of Film Studies at Calvin College. He is the author of Rhetoric and Representation in Non-Fiction Film and the coeditor of Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion.

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