Feeling Film: Affect and Authenticity in Popular Cinema
Cinema has the capacity to enflame our passions,to arouse our pity,to inspire our love. Feeling Film is a book that examines the emotional encounters found in contemporary popular cinema cultures. Examining melodrama,film noir,comic book franchises,cult indie movies and romantic comedy within the context of a Jungian-informed psychology and contemporary movements in film-philosophy,this book considers the various kinds of feelings engendered by our everyday engagements with cin