| Description |
1 online resource (163 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
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Routledge research in cultural and media studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Emotion As Action; 2 Circulating Anger; 3 The Justice Genres; 4 The Social Imaginary of Justice; 5 Cold Comfort. Loss and Consolation; 6 Selective Compassion and National Identity; Notes; Bibliography; Film and Television Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Popular film and television are ideally suited in understanding how emotions create culturally shared meanings. Yet very little has been done in this area. Emotion, Genre, and Justice in Film and Television explores textual representations of emotions from a cultural perspective, rather than in biological or psychological terms. It considers emotions as structures of feeling that are collectively shared and historically developed. Through their cultural meanings and uses, emotions enable social identities to be created and contested, to become fixed or alter. Popular narrativ |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203819135 |
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0203819136 |
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