Emotion Pictures - Movies and Feelings

This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion - be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety - to examine cinematic emotion in depth.
Drawing on philosophical and psychological approaches, Fischer's unique analysis offers unparalleled case studies for comprehending emotion in the movies. The book provides the reader with an opportunity to contemplate what notion of a particular emotion is advanced onscreen; to describe how the unique tools and aesthetics of cinema are utilized to do so; to place such representations in dialogue with film theory as well as philosophical and psychological commentary; and to illustrate the important dichotomy between filmic portrayals and audience response.
Beyond film and media scholars and students, this book will have resonance for academics and practitioners in several fields of psychology, including social work, psychiatry, and therapy.

List of contents

Introduction: Film "The Emotion Machine";  1. Animated Emotions Emblems of Feeling in Inside Out and The Emoji Movie;  2. Grief The Unbearable Heaviness of Being in Pieces of a Woman;  3. Trauma Black Boyhood and Moonlight;  4. Anxiety High Anxiety in Adaptation;  5. Guilt Blame and Culpability in 21 Grams;  6. Jealousy The "Green-Eyed Monster" in Fado;  7. Vengeance "Vengeance is Mine": Red Road;  8. Pity The Refusal of Pathos in Pity;  9. Lust Sex, Greed, and Murder in The Square;  10. Happiness Capturing Joy in Happy-Go-Lucky & Hector and the Search for Happiness;  Afterthoughts

About the author

Lucy Fischer is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA where she directed the Program for three decades.

Summary

This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion – be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety – to examine cinematic emotion in depth. It will have resonance for academics and practitioners in several fields of psychology, including social work, psychiatry, and therapy.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Fischer, Fischer Lucy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032037844
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3203784-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 10 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Illustrations: 57 SW-Abb., 57 SW-Fotos
• Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PERFORMING ARTS / Animation, PERFORMING ARTS / Storytelling, Films, cinema, Psychology: emotions, Philosophy: aesthetics, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Reference