Empathetic Space on Screen: Constructing Powerful Place and Setting 9783319667720, 9783319667713, 2017950725

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Empathetic Space on Screen: Constructing Powerful Place and Setting
9783319667720, 9783319667713, 2017950725

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Amedeo D’Adamo

Table of contents :
Part I The Building Codes of Narrative Space: The Three Forms of Emotional Entanglements between People and Places in story

1 Welcome to Dantean Space!: Empathy and Space in Singin’ in the Rain, Legally Blonde , the Pursuit of Happyness and Aliens
2 The Empty Man of Action vs. The Active Heart: Dispassionate and Dramatic Characters from James Bond and Sherlock Holmes to Little Miss Sunshine, Hamlet and The Hobbit
3 The Frozen Ones: Dantean Moments, Characters and Space in the films Aliens , Amelie, Sunset Blvd, Batman and others
4 Character Vs. Emotion: How Music and Sound define Space in the films Little Miss Sunshine, 50 Shades of Grey, Twilight and Secretary

Part II Boundaries Visible and Broken: Empathy from Shade Space to Showcase Space

5 The Library of All Stories: Purgatory, Therapy and Character Arcs in Dante and in Great Expectations, One Hour Photo, The Third Man and Sunrise , in Camus’ Novel The Fall , and in Edgar Allen’s Poe’s Short Stories
6 Ghosts and Shades and Place: Empathetic Hauntology in Gravity, Lars and the Real Girl, and Hiroshima Mon Amour
7 On Collapsing Boundaries Between Protagonist and Antagonist: Dante’s Tricks and Others in La Vie En Rose and Apocalypse Now and in the Documentaries Tarnation, Elena and Waltzing With Bashir
8 Alienated Spaces: DeathStarchitecture in Star Wars , Bleached Space and Dialogue in The Graduate , Showroom Space in Pleasantville and Mad Men , and the Dantean Homes of Homeland

Part III How Not to Think like Dante Alighieri: The Social Implications of Dantean Space

9 How Not to Think Like Dante Alighieri: Guilt, Punishment and the Components of Dantean Space
10 Escaping Dantean Space: On Creating Zones of Care in the Biography of St. Teresa, in Marble and Makeup and through Cinematography
11 How to Create Ecstatic Space: Zones of Care in the the Films The Secret Garden and Amelie , in the Video Game Wrath of the White Witch , and Beyond

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