Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film

ISBN-13: 9781474431699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Charles Burnetts

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Towards a Genealogy of Sentimentalism in the 18th and 19th Century
Chapter Two: Sentimental Aesthetics and Classical Film Theory
Chapter Three: The Sentimental Chaplin: Comedy and Classical Narrative
Chapter Four: Affect, or Postmodern Sentimentalism
Chapter Five: The Sentiments of War In Spielberg and Tarantino
Chapter Six: Sentiment and the ‘Smart’ Melodrama
Conclusion
Bibliography