TY - BOOK ID - 224943 TI - Moving viewers PY - 2009 SN - 9780520256958 0520256956 9780520256965 0520256964 0520943910 9786612772627 1282772627 9780520943919 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Motion picture audiences KW - Motion pictures KW - Psychology. KW - Film KW - United States KW - 82:791.43 KW - 82:791.43 Literatuur en film KW - Literatuur en film KW - CineĢma KW - Publics KW - Psychologie KW - Psychology KW - american film. KW - audience theory. KW - cinema and film. KW - cognitive science. KW - cultural studies. KW - desires. KW - emotional experience. KW - film criticism. KW - film studies. KW - film. KW - hollywood films. KW - mainstream narratives. KW - media studies. KW - movie criticism. KW - movie studies. KW - movie watching. KW - movies and emotions. KW - movies. KW - moving viewers. KW - negative emotions. KW - philosophical aesthetics. KW - pleasures. KW - psychology of spectatorship. KW - ritualistic fantasy. KW - sensual films. KW - spectators. KW - sympathetic narratives. KW - synesthesia. KW - the paradox of negative emotion. KW - watching a movie. KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:224943 AB - Everyone knows the thrill of being transported by a film, but what is it that makes movie watching such a compelling emotional experience? In Moving Viewers, Carl Plantinga explores this question and the implications of its answer for aesthetics, the psychology of spectatorship, and the place of movies in culture. Through an in-depth discussion of mainstream Hollywood films, Plantinga investigates what he terms "the paradox of negative emotion" and the function of mainstream narratives as ritualistic fantasies. He describes the sensual nature of the movies and shows how film emotions are often elicited for rhetorical purposes. He uses cognitive science and philosophical aesthetics to demonstrate why cinema may deliver a similar emotional charge for diverse audiences. ER -