Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema

by Murray Smith

Characters - those fictional agents populating the fictional worlds we spend so much time absorbed in - are ubiquitous in our lives. We track their fortunes, judge their actions, and respond to them with anger, amusement, and affection - indeed the whole palette of human emotions. Powerfully drawn characters transcend their stories, entering into our imaginations and deliberations about the actual world, acting as analogies and points of reference...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198871074
• ISBN13: 9780198871071
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"