1st Edition

Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television Detecting Feeling

By Deidre Pribram Copyright 2011
162 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Deidre Pribram is Assistant Professor in Communication Arts & Sciences at Molloy College.

‘E. Deidre Pribram’s well-written and engaging work is a return to the traditional Cultural Studies way of doing representational research and is perhaps surprisingly to some predominantly a refreshing read. Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television: Detecting Feeling is at first glance a return to a well-tread perspective, but it could also potentially be the start of a new cinema research focus on justice and emotion on a much larger scale.’ – Helle Kannik Haastrup, MedieKultur