Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just
artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate …

The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as
mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gangster-in-the-making …

Figuren sind für Spielfilme und das Erleben der Zuschauer von zentraler Bedeutung. Dieses
Buch stellt das bislang umfassendste Modell zur Untersuchung von Filmfiguren in ihren …

In the mid-1950s CP Snow began his campaign against the'two cultures'-the debilitating
divide, as he saw it, between traditional'literary intellectual'culture, and the culture of the …

With far more creative and expressive potential than communication via conventional signs
and codes, although also incorporating these, we have seen that filmmaking may be aptly …

How does a film editor make decisions about where and when to cut in order to make a
film'feel right'? Generally speaking, the answer is,'it's intuitive', which is accurate but leaves …

After clarifying several issues that have unnecessarily complicated and confused the
analysis of emotion arising from fiction, this chapter integrates research-supported …

Philosophical questions about the arts go naturally with other kinds of questions about them.
Art is sometimes said to be an historical concept. But where in our cultural and biological …

This article argues how players can control a player character influence interpretation and
facilitate engagement within a game. Engagement with player characters can be goal …

The recent surge of interest in film in academia has seen the emergence of film studies as a
legitimate academic discipline, and a concomitant rise in film scholarship and courses in film …