Engaging characters :
Smith, Murray 1962-
Engaging characters : fiction, emotion, and the cinema / Murray Smith. - Reprinted ed. - Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 2004. - viii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-254) and index.
Thrillers, horror movies and melodramas evoke characteristic kinds of emotional response, yet emotion is not much examined by film or literary theory. This work discusses emotional responses to films, integrating them into a theory of identification with characters in films and literature.
0198182406 (acidb-sfree paper) 019818347X (pbk) 9780198183471
94045551
Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.
Identification (Psychology)
Motion picture audiences.
--Reading book
791.4301 / SMI
Engaging characters : fiction, emotion, and the cinema / Murray Smith. - Reprinted ed. - Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 2004. - viii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-254) and index.
Thrillers, horror movies and melodramas evoke characteristic kinds of emotional response, yet emotion is not much examined by film or literary theory. This work discusses emotional responses to films, integrating them into a theory of identification with characters in films and literature.
0198182406 (acidb-sfree paper) 019818347X (pbk) 9780198183471
94045551
Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.
Identification (Psychology)
Motion picture audiences.
--Reading book
791.4301 / SMI