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Engaging Characters Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema

Paperback • 1995 • English • 1. edition

Engaging Characters Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema

By Murray Stuart Smith, Lecturer in Film Studies Murray Smith

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About the book

Thrillers, tear jerkers, horror movies, melodramas--like so many movie terms, these genre designations immediately evoke characteristic kinds of emotional response. Yet emotion is a subject that film and literary theory have traditionally dealt with in only the most impressionistic and tangential fashion. Engaging Characters presents a precise discussion of the varieties of emotional response to films, integrating them into a larger theory of our engagement (or "identification") with characters ...Show more

Films, cinema
Film history, theory or criticism
Film: styles and genres

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ISBN

9780198183471

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Published year

1995

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Engaging Characters Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema

Format

Paperback

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