Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema

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Thrillers, weepies, horror movies, and melodramas evoke characteristic kinds of emotional response, yet emotion is not much examined by film or literary theory. Engaging Characters discusses emotional responses to films, integrating them into a theory of engagement ("identification") with characters in cinematic and literary fictions.

Author(s): Murray Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1995

Language: English
Commentary: Scanned book with semi-successful OCR
Pages: 140