Moving Viewers

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Moving Viewers

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ISBN: 9780520256965
author: Carl Plantinga
publishing house: University of California Press
publication date: 2009 -4
binding: Paperback
price: USD 24.95
number of pages: 296

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American Film and the Spectator's Experience

Carl Plantinga   

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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.

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