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

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

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

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

Noël Carroll, a brilliant and provocative philosopher of film, has gathered in this book eighteen of his most recent essays on cinema and television—what Car