Toward a Theory of Point-of-View Editing

Communication, Emotion, and the Movies

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4376296
AutoresNicola Carroll (0000-0001-8344-1220), Noël Carroll
Ano1993
Volume14
Fascículo1
Páginas123
Data de publicação1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1773144
OpenAlexW2317236835
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas1

The purpose of this paper is to advance several hypotheses about what is called point-of-view editing in film and television. The first hypothesis is that point-of-view editing succeeds as an instrument of representation due to its exploitation of an innate human tendency to follow glances to their targets. The second hypothesis is that, in large measure, point-of-view editing communicates emotion effectively due to its reliance upon cross-cultural patterns of facial recognition. And the third hypothesis is that point-of-view editing is a particularly suitable device for mass-media entertainment-such as the movies and television-because of its enlistment of generic perceptual

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