Cinema has the capacity to enflame our passions, to arouse our pity, to inspire our love. Feeling Film is a book that examines the emotional encounters found in

This book questions the de facto dominance of narrative when watching films. Using the film musical as a case study, this book explores whether an alternative s

An analysis of what contemporary directors seek to attain by putting their spectators in a position of strong discomfort

There is an upsurge of interest in contemporary film theory towards cinematic emotions. Tarja Laine's innovative study proposes a methodology for interpreting a

Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget q