Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television

Detecting Feeling

Bibliographic Data

ID23534572
AuthorsDeidre Pribram
Year2012
Pages148
Publication date2012-05-23
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEmotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203819135
OpenAlexW4233137238
ISBN9780203819135
Open LibraryOL53910146M
LanguageEN
Citations received3

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 collectively shared and historically developed. Through their cultural meanings and uses, emotions enable social identities to be created and contested, to become fixed or alter. Popular narratives often take on emotional significance, aiding groups of people in recognizing or expressing what they feel and who they are. This book focuses on the justice genres – the generic network of film and television programs that are concerned with crime, law, and social order – to examine how fictional police, detective, and legal stories participate in collectively realized conceptions of emotion. A range of films (Crash, Man on Fire) and television series (Cold Case,Cagney and Lacey) serve as case studies to explore contemporarily relevant representations of anger, fear, loss and consolation, and compassion.

Art · Economic Justice · Political science · Sociology · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Emotions · Motion picture audiences · Motion pictures · Motion pictures, production and direction · Psychological aspects · Social aspects · Television programs · Television, production and direction

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