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Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema
Engaging Characters Fiction Emotion and the Cinema Author:Murray Smith, Clarendon Press Thrillers, weepies, horror movies, melodramas... Like so many movie terms, these genre designations immediately evoke characteristic kinds of emotional response. Yet emotion is a subject that film and literary theory have hitherto dealt with in only the most impressionistic and tangential fashion. Engaging Characters discusses the varieties of... more » emotional response to films with precision, integrating them into a larger theory of our engagement (or `identification') with characters in both cinematic and literary fictions. Films and film-makers discussed include The Accused; Hitchcock (including detailed analyses of The Man Who Knew Too Much [1956] and Saboteur); Godard; Ruiz; Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire; Dovzhenko's Arsenal and Preminger's Daisy Kenyon; Bresson's L'Argent; Eisenstein's Strike; and Melville's Le Doulos.« less