How Emotions Work in Movies, According to Film Theory | Video Essay

This video essay is about the emotions of film and how they’re approached in scientific study and modern film theory. Movie emotions, or cinematic emotions more specifically, are all the emotions felt, expressed, and presented during a cinematic event. The cinematic event is something which has been thoroughly studied in film theory and film studies, but studying the emotions involving them is a relatively modern phenomenon. To understand cinematic emotions, we must look at how films work, how emotions work, and how their synthesis works.
The arguments in the video are heavily based on a film studies/film theory book called “Feeling Cinema: Emotional Dynamics in Film Studies” by Tarja Laine in 2011. Alongside this, information from Carl Plantinga’s 2009 book “Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator’s Experience” was used. Laine’s book focuses on specific movies and emotions, while Plantinga’s book is at times more theoretically thorough. If you’re interested at all in the emotion-focused film theory, check them out, they’re amazing.
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Timestamps
00:00 Cinematic Emotions
00:57 The Film
02:56 The Spectator
05:45 The Dance
10:00 The Filmmaker & The Critic
List of movies, videos and music used in video essay and in examples:
MOVIES:
The Shining (1980), from Stanley Kubrick
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982), from Steven Spielberg
Good Will Hunting (1997), from Gus van Sant
Fight Club (1999), from David Fincher
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001), from Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), from Steven Spielberg
Inside Out (2015), from Pete Docter & Ronnie Del Carmen
Jojo Rabbit (2021), from Taika Waititi
VIDEOS:
Channel: Movie Nerds, video: 2010 - 2019 Movie Supercut - A Decade of Movies
Channel: Seoski Dzulov, video: KIDS drop ice cream!!! Compilation
SOUND:
Knives Out soundtrack, from Nathan Johnson
Classical music but it’s lofi II, from Classical Music but…
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