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

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.


Author: Torben Grodal
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 04/15/1999
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.12w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780198159834

About the Author

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

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