Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film

Author:   Charles Burnetts
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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9780748698196


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 September 2017
Format:   Hardback
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When did the sentimental start to mean awful? Why are many popular mainstream films so often dismissed for their sentimentality? What are the key differences between the sentimental and the melodramatic? These are some of the questions to be addressed in this illuminating genealogy of the sentimental as both literary genre and aesthetic philosophy, a tradition that prefigures the advent of film yet serves as a vital framework for understanding its emotional and ethical appeals.

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Author:   Charles Burnetts
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9780748698196


ISBN 10:   0748698191
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Charles Burnetts teaches film in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Kings University College, The University of Western Ontario.

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