Improving Passions

Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-9819-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	6 B/W illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7486-9819-1 / 0748698191
ISBN-13	978-0-7486-9819-6 / 9780748698196
Zustand	Neuware