1995
First Published
3.88
Average Rating
304
Number of Pages
Thrillers, tear jerkers, 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 traditionally dealt with in only the most impressionistic and tangential fashion. Engaging Characters presents a precise discussion of the varieties of emotional response to films, integrating them into a larger theory of our engagement (or "identification") with characters in both cinematic and literary fictions. Films and filmmakers discussed include The Accused ; Hitchcock (including detailed analyses of The Man Who Knew Too Much [1956] and Saboteur ); Godard; Ruiz; Buñuel'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 .
Avg Rating
3.88
Number of Ratings
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