Introduced one hundred years ago, film has since become part of our lives. For the past century, however, the experience offered by fiction films has remained a

Christina Kallas argues for and sets out a genuinely original and creative approach to writing for the screen. This textbook aims to excite the imagination, ins

Stories engage our emotions. We?ve known this at least since the days of Plato and Aristotle. What this book helps us to understand now is how our own emotions

Films evoke broad moods and cue particular emotions that can be broadly shared as well as individually experienced. Although the experience of emotion is centra

It has long been clear that the way in which people interpret the world affects our emotional reactions. What has been less clear is exactly how such different