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Genre/Form: | Suspense in motion pictures, television, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Suspense. Mahwah, N.J. : Erlbaum, 1996 (OCoLC)603750267 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Vorderer; Hans Jürgen Wulff; Mike Friedrichsen |
ISBN: | 0805819657 9780805819656 0805819665 9780805819663 |
OCLC Number: | 33207660 |
Description: | ix, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | 1. Suspense and the Influence of Cataphora on Viewers' Expectations / Hans J. Wulff -- 2. Keeping Our Selves in Suspense: The Imagined Gaze and Fictional Constructions of the Self in Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe / Garry Leonard -- 3. The Experience of Suspense: Between Fear and Pleasure / Lothar Mikos -- 4. Narrative Tension in Antonioni / Peter Wuss -- 5. The Paradox of Suspense / Noel Carroll -- 6. The Resiliency of Suspense / Richard J. Gerrig -- 7. The Nature of Narrative Suspense and the Problem of Rereading / William F. Brewer -- 8. Cognitive Modeling of Suspense-Inducing Structures in Narrative Films / Peter Ohler and Gerhild Nieding -- 9. Suspense, Predictive Inference, and Emotion in Film Viewing / Ed Tan and Gijsbert Diteweg -- 10. Suspense and Disorientation: Two Roles of Emotionally Charged Literary Uncertainty / Gerald C. Cupchik -- 11. The Psychology of Suspense in Dramatic Exposition / Dolf Zillmann. |
Series Title: | LEA's communication series. |
Responsibility: | edited by Peter Vorderer, Hans J. Wulff, Mike Friedrichsen. |
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"Overall, the editors provide readers with an in-depth analysis of suspense from many different methodological perspectives....This book, however, breaks ground in an understudied area of film studies, and it is an important work for communication scholars who study film."-Communication Theory Read more...
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