Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Towards a Genealogy of Sentimentalism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 2 Sentimental Aesthetics and Classical Film Theory
- 3 The Sentimental Chaplin: Comedy and Classical Narrative
- 4 Affect, or Postmodern Sentimentalism
- 5 The Sentiments of War in Spielberg and Tarantino
- 6 Sentiment and the ‘Smart’ Melodrama
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Towards a Genealogy of Sentimentalism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 2 Sentimental Aesthetics and Classical Film Theory
- 3 The Sentimental Chaplin: Comedy and Classical Narrative
- 4 Affect, or Postmodern Sentimentalism
- 5 The Sentiments of War in Spielberg and Tarantino
- 6 Sentiment and the ‘Smart’ Melodrama
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Improving PassionsSentimental Aesthetics and American Film, pp. viPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017