Film Structure and the Emotion System

Half title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
PART ONE DEVELOPING THE APPROACH......Page 11
1 An Invitation to Feel......Page 13
Why Cognitive Theory?......Page 25
Cognition and Emotion......Page 29
Emotion Prototypes and Nonprototypical Emotions......Page 31
The Structure of the Emotion System......Page 33
Building the Network, Learning the Prototypes......Page 42
Emotion and Culture......Page 44
Temporality and Orientation: Emotions as Process......Page 46
3 The Mood-Cue Approach to Filmic Emotion......Page 51
The Central Assertion: The Interaction between Mood and Emotion......Page 52
Coordinated Cuing: The Emotion Marker......Page 54
Brief Prototypes: Mixing Genre Microscripts......Page 58
Classifying the Appeal: Goal Orientation and Sparse Information......Page 61
Stranger than Raiders......Page 67
4 Other Cognitivisms......Page 75
Noël Carroll: The Philosophy of Objects......Page 76
Ed Tan: The Psychology of Interest and Action......Page 80
Torben Grodal: The Psychology of Flow......Page 85
PART TWO ANALYZING EMOTIONAL APPEALS IN FILM......Page 93
5 “Couldn’t You Read between Those Pitiful Lines?”......Page 95
Establishing the Mood......Page 96
Superior Knowledge......Page 102
Details in the Diegesis......Page 107
Music......Page 111
6 Strike-ing Out......Page 118
Stylistic, Not Emotional, Orientation......Page 119
Kittens, Griffith, and the Child at Play......Page 127
7 Lyricism and Unevenness......Page 132
The Brewing Storm......Page 133
Juxtaposing Emotions......Page 140
8 Emotion Work......Page 148
9 “I Was Misinformed ”......Page 161
An Uncertain Start......Page 163
PART THREE AFTERWORD......Page 177
10 An Invitation to Interpret......Page 179
APPENDIX The Neurological Basis of Psychoanalytic Film Theory......Page 184
Metz and Mulvey: Setting the Terms......Page 186
Freud’s Neurophysiology of the Psyche......Page 188
Associations and Functionality......Page 193
Theorists of Instincts and Drives......Page 197
1. An Invitation to Feel......Page 205
2. The Emotion System and Nonprototypical Emotions......Page 206
3. The Mood-Cue Approach to Filmic Emotion......Page 212
4. Other Cognitivisms......Page 213
5. “Couldn’t You Read between Those Pitiful Lines?” Feeling for Stella Dallas......Page 215
6. Strike-ing Out: The Partial Success of Early Eisenstein’s Emotional Appeal......Page 218
8. Emotion Work: The Joy Luck Club and the Limits of the Emotion System......Page 220
9. “I Was Misinformed”: Nostalgia and Uncertainty in Casablanca......Page 221
Appendix......Page 222
Index......Page 227