Film Directors and Emotion: An Affective Turn in Contemporary American Cinema

by Graham Price and Darragh Greene

Cinema is an affective medium. Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as well as fear, anger, and hatred. Today, we are living through a new age of sensibility when emotion is given priority over reason. Yet, there is a counter-cultural current in contemporary American cinema that offers a more nuanced treatment of emotion. Both aesthetically and eidetically, this new cinema of affect allows viewers to make up their own minds about what they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476668892
• ISBN13: 9781476668895
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher