Lucy Fischer

Emotion Pictures

Movies and Feelings

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781032037806
• ISBN-10: 1032037806
• Artikelnr.: 64360797

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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