| Description |
1 online resource (351 pages) |
| Series |
AFI Film Readers Ser |
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AFI Film Readers Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; contents; list of figures; acknowledgments; foreword: consorting with characters; introduction: screening characters; part one the importance of actors; 1. seeing and hearing screen characters: stars, twofoldness, and the imagination; 2. character and the star vehicle: the impact of casting cary grant; 3. character collaborations: the writer-actor relationship in mad men; part two social types, social contexts; 4. being typical and being individual; 5. the mark of the social: stereotypes, folk psychology, and metonymy in mainstream film |
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6. racialized disgust and character in filmpart three medium-specific features and constraints; 7. impossible characterizations; 8. performative metamorphosis: animated characters and spectator proximity; 9. social media as interface, or how characters enter our everyday reality; 10. owning our actions: identification with avatars in video games; part four emotional and moral engagement; 11. ethical criticism and fictional characters as moral agents; 12. absorbed character engagement: from social cognition responses to the experience of fictional constructions |
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13. "familiarity breeds contempt": why fascination, rather than repeat exposure, better explains the appeal of antiheroes on televisionpart five the character within genre; 14. girls who can leap through time: shojo and time travel in east asian media; 15. action and affordances: the action hero's skilled and surprising use of the environment; 16. introducing characters in television crime series: stylistic and narrative strategies; about the contributors; about the american film institute; index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Characters and characteristics in motion pictures.
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Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Taylor, Aaron
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| ISBN |
9780429749179 |
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0429749171 |
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