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Moving Viewers

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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Carl Plantinga EAN: 9780520256965 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 363 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of California Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-04-08 CITY: GENRE: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, Film history, theory or criticism

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      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.
      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Carl Plantinga EAN: 9780520256965 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 363 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of California Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-04-08 CITY: GENRE: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, Film history, theory or criticism

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      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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