Skip to main content alibris logo

Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film

by

Write The First Customer Review
Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film - Burnetts, Charles
Filter Results
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

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.

loading
Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film 2019, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

ISBN-13: 9781474431699

Paperback

Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film 2017, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

ISBN-13: 9780748698196

Hardcover