Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition

ISBN-13: 9780198159834 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str.

Torben Grodal

Opis

Providing an alternative to psychoanalytically based descriptions, this book presents an unique new theoretical account of the way emotions and thought patterns interact in creating aesthetic effects in films. Grodal shows how films activate effects in the viewer and how these effects are molded by genres (horror, melodrama) which determine the way in which characters will react in given situations.

Recenzje

Groundbreaking....Throughout, Grodal refers to an admirably wide range of films; there is a particularly fascinating section on Gone with the Wind and Vertigo. Must reading for anyone interested in film theory. Brilliant.

O autorze

Torben Grodal is Professor of Media Studies at The University of Copenhagen, Denmark