Improving Passions : Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film

Name: Improving Passions
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9781474431699
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ISBN: 9781474431699

by Charles Burnetts

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1474431690

ISBN-13 9781474431699

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 26th, 2019

Print length 192 Pages

Weight 304 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 18.00 x 0.40 cms

Product Classification: Film theory & criticism Film history, theory or criticism

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Examining eighteenth century ‘moral sense’ philosophy as a neglected but important intellectual area for film theory, Improving Passions is an innovative exploration of the sentimental tradition as both theatrical genre and cultural logic.

When did the sentimental start to mean ‘awful’? Why are so many popular mainstream films dismissed for their sentimentality, and are there any meaningful differences between the sentimental and the melodramatic? These are some of the questions addressed in Charles Burnetts’ illuminating genealogy of the concept as both a literary genre and an aesthetic philosophy, a tradition that prefigures the advent of film yet serves as a vital framework for understanding its emotional and ethical appeal. Examining 18th century ‘moral sense’ philosophy as a neglected but still important intellectual area for film theory, and drawing on case studies of film sentimentality during the early, classical and post-classical eras of US cinema, Improving Passions is an innovative exploration of the sentimental tradition as both theatrical genre and cultural logic.

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