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Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Julian Hanich
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher:

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Why can fear be pleasurable? Why do we sometimes enjoy an emotion we otherwise desperately wish to avoid? And why are the movies the predominant place for this
Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers
Language: en
Pages: 633
Authors: Julian Hanich
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-09 - Publisher: Routledge

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Hanich looks at fear at the movies – its aesthetics, its experience and its pleasures--in this thought-provoking study. Looking at over 150 different films in
Engaging Characters
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Murray Smith
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-12 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Characters - those fictional agents populating the fictional worlds we spend so much time absorbed in - are ubiquitous in our lives. We track their fortunes, ju
Passionate Views
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Carl Plantinga
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-04-23 - Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Passionate Views offers a new approach to our understanding of film and will be of interest to anyone fascinated by the emotional power of motion pictures and t
Audience Effect
Language: en
Pages: 325
Authors: Julian Hanich
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-22 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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In this innovative book, Julian Hanich explores the subjectively lived experience of watching films together, to discover a fuller understanding of cinema as an