Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience

by Carl Plantinga

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Everyone knows the thrill of being transported by a film, but what is it that makes movie watching such a compelling emotional experience? In Moving Viewers, Carl Plantinga explores this question and the implications of its answer for aesthetics, the psychology of spectatorship, and the place of movies in culture. Through an in-depth discussion of mainstream Hollywood films, Plantinga investigates what he terms "the paradox of negative emotion"...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520256964

ISBN13:9780520256965

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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