Characters in Film and Other Media
Characters are central to the creation and experience of films and other media. Their cultural significance is profound, but they also raise a wide range of questions. This book provides a comprehensive theory that guides the analysis and interpretation of characters across four dimensions: as repr...
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| author | Eder, Jens |
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| description | Characters are central to the creation and experience of films and other media. Their cultural significance is profound, but they also raise a wide range of questions. This book provides a comprehensive theory that guides the analysis and interpretation of characters across four dimensions: as represented beings with physical, psychological, and social characteristics; as artefacts with aesthetic structures; as meaningful symbols; and as symptoms of socio-cultural origins and effects. Integrating insights from film, media, and literary studies as well as philosophy, psychology and sociology, the book offers a broad range of approaches for understanding characters and the emotional responses they evoke. Richly illustrated and offering practical tools, along with case studies of numerous characters from different genres of films, this book will be invaluable to scholars and students of film and media studies and related disciplines, as well as artistic practitioners. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1637802025-08-05T05:07:51Z Characters in Film and Other Media Eder, Jens Character Theory;Film Analysis;Media Characters;Psychological Representation;Cultural Symbols;Emotional Responses thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBC Social research and statistics thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFN Film: styles and genres thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism Characters are central to the creation and experience of films and other media. Their cultural significance is profound, but they also raise a wide range of questions. This book provides a comprehensive theory that guides the analysis and interpretation of characters across four dimensions: as represented beings with physical, psychological, and social characteristics; as artefacts with aesthetic structures; as meaningful symbols; and as symptoms of socio-cultural origins and effects. Integrating insights from film, media, and literary studies as well as philosophy, psychology and sociology, the book offers a broad range of approaches for understanding characters and the emotional responses they evoke. Richly illustrated and offering practical tools, along with case studies of numerous characters from different genres of films, this book will be invaluable to scholars and students of film and media studies and related disciplines, as well as artistic practitioners. 2025-08-05T05:07:51Z 2025-08-05T05:07:51Z 2025-08-04T11:06:57Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104917 9781800642485 9781800642492 9781800646681 9781800642515 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163780 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104917/1/obp.0283.pdf Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0283 10.11647/OBP.0283 b014b543-78bd-4c3b-bc71-b68e2ac855b9 aa052f9c-0678-410d-973b-8ceeadf17490 de45f3db-4448-4974-b2a5-576641b4a4b0 9781800642485 9781800642492 9781800646681 9781800642515 876 Cambridge Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the State of Brandenburg Brandenburger Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur Brandenburg Ministry of Sciences, Research and Cultural Affairs 10.13039/501100004581 open access |
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