Charles Burnetts

Improving Passions

Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining eighteenth century 'moral sense' philosophy as a neglected but important intellectual area for film theory, 'Improving Passions' is an innovative exploration of the sentimental tradition as both theatrical genre and cultural logic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781474431699
• ISBN-10: 1474431690
• Artikelnr.: 53687099

Autorenporträt

Charles Burnetts teaches film in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Kings University College, The University of Western Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Towards a Genealogy of Sentimentalism in the 18th and 19th
Century
Chapter Two: Sentimental Aesthetics and Classical Film Theory
Chapter Three: The Sentimental Chaplin: Comedy and Classical Narrative
Chapter Four: Affect, or Postmodern Sentimentalism
Chapter Five: The Sentiments of War In Spielberg and Tarantino
Chapter Six: Sentiment and the 'Smart' Melodrama
Conclusion
Bibliography