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Improving passions : sentimental aesthetics in American film / Charles Burnetts.
LIBRA PN1993.5.U6 B87 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burnetts, Charles, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sentimentalism in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--United States--History.
- Motion pictures.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- When did the sentimental start to mean awful? Why are many popular mainstream films so often dismissed for their sentimentality? What are the key differences between the sentimental and the melodramatic? These are some of the questions to be addressed in this illuminating genealogy of the sentimental as both literary genre and aesthetic philosophy, a tradition that prefigures the advent of film yet serves as a vital framework for understanding its emotional and ethical appeals.
- Contents:
- 1 Towards a Genealogy of Sentimentalism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 22
- 2 Sentimental Aesthetics and Classical Film Theory 52
- 3 The Sentimental Chaplin: Comedy and Classical Narrative 78
- 4 Affect, or Postmodern Sentimentalism 99
- 5 The Sentiments of War in Spielberg and Tarantino 127
- 6 Sentiment and the 'Smart' Melodrama 142.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-180) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780748698196
- 0748698191
- OCLC:
- 977228588
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