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Film directors and emotion : an affective turn in contemporary American cinema
- Title
- Film directors and emotion : an affective turn in contemporary American cinema / Darragh Greene and Graham Price.
- Author
- Greene, Darragh
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Price, Graham (Lecturer in Irish literature)
- Description
- vii, 193 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Cinema is an affective medium. Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as well as fear, anger, and hatred. Today, we are living through a new age of sensibility when emotion is given priority over reason. Hollywood produces movies that employ cheap manipulative tricks to make audiences cry, feel good, or jump in fright. Yet, there is a counter-cultural current in contemporary American cinema that offers a more nuanced treatment of emotion. Both aesthetically and eidetically, this new cinema of affect allows viewers to make up their own minds about what they feel and think. This book focuses on key films by important auteur-directors-David Fincer, Bryan Singer, Christopher Nolan, Kathryn Bigelow, Richard Linklater, Barry Jenkins, Greta Gerwig, and Pete Docter-who are to the forefront of this new cinema. Without ever being dogmatic, these directors' films offer their audiences a glimpse at strategies for relating to, and entering into being with, others in a manner that can be regarded as profoundly ethical. Employing affect theory, Jungian analytical psychology, and Hegelian dialecticism, this book explores how these filmmakers anatomize affect, showing how it functions in the creation or degradation of character and society"--
- Subject
- Emotions in motion pictures
- Motion pictures > United States > Psychological aspects
- Motion pictures > Production and direction > United States
- Motion pictures > Psychological aspects
- Affect (Psychology) in the performing arts
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Motion pictures
- Motion pictures > Production and direction
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188), filmography (pages 169-170), and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the affective turn in American cinema -- David Fincher's feelings : from apathy to zest -- Bryan Singer's strange cinema of freaks and outsiders -- Christopher Nolan : mastering fear, rage and death -- Kathryn Bigelow and the war on terror -- Richard Linklater, Barry Jenkins, Greta Gerwig : cinematic coming-of-age narratives -- Epilogue : Inside out : a major (e)motion picture.
- Call Number
- MFL 21-1062
- ISBN
- 9781476668895
- 1476668892
- 9781476640082 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020012662
- OCLC
- 1133654770
- Author
- Greene, Darragh, author.
- Title
- Film directors and emotion : an affective turn in contemporary American cinema / Darragh Greene and Graham Price.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188), filmography (pages 169-170), and index.
- Added Author
- Price, Graham (Lecturer in Irish literature), author.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 21-1062