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

By Torben Grodal

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198159838
• ISBN13: 9780198159834
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"