Film Structure and the Emotion System

by Greg M. Smith

Book Overview

Films evoke broad moods and cue particular emotions that can be broadly shared as well as individually experienced. Although the experience of emotion is central to the viewing of movies, film studies have neglected to focus attention on the emotions, relying instead on vague psychoanalytic concepts of desire. Film Structure and the Emotion System synthesizes research on emotion in cognitive psychology and neurology in an effort to provide a more...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521817587
• ISBN13: 9780521817585
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"