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Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema Hardback - 1995

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Author: Murray Smith
ISBN: 9780198182405

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Thrillers, weepies, horror movies and melodramas evoke characteristic kinds of emotional response, yet emotion is not much examined by film or literary theory. This work discusses emotional responses to films, integrating them into a theory of engagement, or identification with, characters in cinematic and literary fictions. Films and filmmakers discussed include: The Accused; Hitchcock (including detailed analyses of The Man Who Knew Too Much and Saboteur); Godard; Ruiz; Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire; Dovzhenko's Arsenal; Preminger's Daisy Kenyon; Bresson's L'Argent; Eisenstein's Strike; and Melville's Le Doulos. This book should be of interest to students of film, cultural, literary and media studies, as well as students of literary theory and philosophy.

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Title Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema
Author Murray Smith
Binding Hardback
Pages 276
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date 1995-10
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780198182405 / 0198182406
Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
Dimensions 9.5 x 6.38 x 0.81 in (24.13 x 16.21 x 2.06 cm)
Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
Library of Congress subjects Motion picture audiences, Motion pictures - Psychological aspects
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94045551
Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

About the author

Smith has contributed to a number of journals in media studies and literary criticism, ranging from Screen to The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He lives in London, SE13.

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