{"product_id":"engaging-characters-fiction-emotion-and-the-cinema-paperback","title":"Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMurray Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharacters - those fictional agents populating the fictional worlds we spend so much time absorbed in - are ubiquitous in our lives. We track their fortunes, judge their actions, and respond to them with anger, amusement, and affection - indeed the whole palette of human emotions. Powerfully drawn characters transcend their stories, entering into our imaginations and deliberations about the actual world, acting as analogies and points of reference. And yet there has been remarkably little sustained and systematic reflection on these creatures that absorb so much of our attention and emotional lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eEngaging Characters\u003c\/em\u003e, Murray Smith sets out a comprehensive analysis of character, exploring the role of characters in our experience of narrative and fiction. Smith's analysis focuses on film, and also illuminates character in literature, opera, song, cartoons, new and social media. At the heart of this account is an explanation of the capacity of characters to move us. Teasing out the various dimensions of character, Smith explores the means by which films draw us close to characters, or hold us at a distance from them, and how our beliefs and attitudes are formed and sometimes reformed by these encounters. Integrating these arguments with research on emotion in philosophy, psychology, evolutionary theory, and anthropology, \u003cem\u003eEngaging Characters\u003c\/em\u003e advances an account of the nature of fictional characters and their functions in fiction, imagination, and human experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this revised, twenty-fifth anniversary edition of \u003cem\u003eEngaging Characters\u003c\/em\u003e, Smith refines and extends the arguments of the first edition, with a substantial new introduction reviewing the debates on emotion, empathy, and film spectatorship that the book has inspired.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMurray Smith, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Philosophy, Art, and Film, University of Kent\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMurray Smith is Professor of Philosophy, Art, and Film at the University of Kent, co-director of the Aesthetics Research Centre at Kent, and Past President of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image. He has published widely on film, art and aesthetics. In addition to \u003cem\u003eEngaging Characters\u003c\/em\u003e, his publications include \u003cem\u003eFilm, Art, and the Third Culture\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP); \u003cem\u003eTrainspotting\u003c\/em\u003e (BFI); \u003cem\u003eFilm Theory and Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e (co-edited with Richard Allen) (OUP); \u003cem\u003eContemporary Hollywood Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e (co-edited with Steve Neale) (Routledge); and \u003cem\u003eThinking through Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e (co-edited with Tom Wartenberg) (Blackwell).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9.21 x 6.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728883454015,"sku":"9780198871071","price":86.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/511beb76d899bee694f6c36042fd543c.webp?v=1765120140","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/engaging-characters-fiction-emotion-and-the-cinema-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}