Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience

Everyone knows the thrill of being transported by a film, but what is it that makes movie...
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Author: Carl Plantinga
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Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience by Plantinga, Carl

Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience

$131.93

Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience

$131.93
Author: Carl Plantinga
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Carl Plantinga
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 04/08/2009
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780520256965


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2009

About the Author
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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