Improving Passions : : Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film / / Charles Burnetts.
Reveals a fascinating history of aesthetic debate concerning the emotional and moral functions of artWhen did the sentimental start to mean ‘awful’? Why are so many popular mainstream films dismissed for their sentimentality, and are there any meaningful differences between the sentimental and the m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Towards a Genealogy of Sentimentalism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 2. Sentimental Aesthetics and Classical Film Theory
- 3. The Sentimental Chaplin: Comedy and Classical Narrative
- 4. Affect, or Postmodern Sentimentalism
- 5. The Sentiments of War in Spielberg and Tarantino
- 6. Sentiment and the ‘Smart’ Melodrama
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index