Overview
- Deals with the emotional aspect of viewing films, focusing on well-known films that are particularly and popularly powerful
- Accessible in three ways: in style, in content (being about popular films and TV shows across all genres) and in its methodology, which bridges film theory and practice
- While focused mainly on film and TV, it also connects forms of storytelling to figurative paintings, sculptures, epic poems, plays and video-games
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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The Building Codes of Narrative Space: The Three Forms of Emotional Entanglements between People and Places in story
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Boundaries Visible and Broken: Empathy from Shade Space to Showcase Space
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How Not to Think like Dante Alighieri: The Social Implications of Dantean Space
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“An inspiring and thought-provoking study : by revealing the many ways space can be used to make us care about characters in stories, this worthwhile book should be of great value to academics and artists alike.” (Andrew Bienen, co-writer of the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry, Associate Professor of Film in Columbia University's Graduate Film Program, USA)
“Empathetic Space on Screen offers a refreshing contribution to the study of film, television, documentary, transmedia narratology and audiovisual aesthetics. An original schema elaborating the concept of empathetic space." (Lisa Perrott, Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, New Zealand)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Empathetic Space on Screen
Book Subtitle: Constructing Powerful Place and Setting
Authors: Amedeo D'Adamo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66772-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66771-3Published: 27 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66772-0Published: 15 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 270
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies, Film Theory, American Cinema and TV, Film and TV Production, Screenwriting