
Emotion Pictures
Movies and Feelings
Lucy Fischer(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 8. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
190 pages
978-1-032-03784-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion - be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety - to examine cinematic emotion in depth.
Drawing on philosophical and psychological approaches, Fischer's unique analysis offers unparalleled case studies for comprehending emotion in the movies. The book provides the reader with an opportunity to contemplate what notion of a particular emotion is advanced onscreen; to describe how the unique tools and aesthetics of cinema are utilized to do so; to place such representations in dialogue with film theory as well as philosophical and psychological commentary; and to illustrate the important dichotomy between filmic portrayals and audience response.
Beyond film and media scholars and students, this book will have resonance for academics and practitioners in several fields of psychology, including social work, psychiatry, and therapy.
Drawing on philosophical and psychological approaches, Fischer's unique analysis offers unparalleled case studies for comprehending emotion in the movies. The book provides the reader with an opportunity to contemplate what notion of a particular emotion is advanced onscreen; to describe how the unique tools and aesthetics of cinema are utilized to do so; to place such representations in dialogue with film theory as well as philosophical and psychological commentary; and to illustrate the important dichotomy between filmic portrayals and audience response.
Beyond film and media scholars and students, this book will have resonance for academics and practitioners in several fields of psychology, including social work, psychiatry, and therapy.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate
Illustrations
57 s/w Abbildungen, 57 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
57 Halftones, black and white; 57 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-03784-4 (9781032037844)
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Person
Lucy Fischer is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA where she directed the Program for three decades.
Content
Introduction: Film "The Emotion Machine"; 1. Animated Emotions Emblems of Feeling in Inside Out and The Emoji Movie; 2. Grief The Unbearable Heaviness of Being in Pieces of a Woman; 3. Trauma Black Boyhood and Moonlight; 4. Anxiety High Anxiety in Adaptation; 5. Guilt Blame and Culpability in 21 Grams; 6. Jealousy The "Green-Eyed Monster" in Fado; 7. Vengeance "Vengeance is Mine": Red Road; 8. Pity The Refusal of Pathos in Pity; 9. Lust Sex, Greed, and Murder in The Square; 10. Happiness Capturing Joy in Happy-Go-Lucky & Hector and the Search for Happiness; Afterthoughts