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Moving Viewers : American Film and the Spectator's Experience

CA : University of California Press, 2009

Online Ressource (295 p.)

Englisch

Description based on print version record

Erscheint auch als: Plantinga, Carl : Moving Viewers : American Film and the Spectator's Experience. - CA : University of California Press, ©2009 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-520-94391-9 (electronic bk.); 0-520-94391-0 (electronic bk.)

978-0-520-25695-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 773564868 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

PN1995.9.A8 P53 2009

302.2343 ; 302.23/43 ; 302.23/43     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC052000 ; bisacsh: PER004000 ; bisacsh: SOC 052000

LOC-SH: Motion picture audiences -- Psychology ; Motion pictures -- United States -- United States ; Motion picture audiences -- Psychology ; Motion pictures -- United States ; Electronic books

Social Science ; Fine Arts ; Electronic books ; United States ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; PERFORMING ARTS ; Film & Video ; General ; Motion picture audiences ; Psychology ; Motion pictures

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