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- Type of Document: Book
- Publisher: Switzerland : The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) , 2018
- Keywords:
- Motion picture authorship ; Motion pictures -- Setting and scenery ; Motion pictures ; Motion pictures
- A Question of Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Part I The Building Codes of Narrative Space: The Three Forms of Emotional Entanglements between People and Places in story
- Chapter 1 Welcome to Dantean Space!: Empathy and Space in Singin’ in the Rain, Legally Blonde, the Pursuit of Happyness and Aliens
- When the Setting Moves Us: Empathy and Space as Categories
- Empathetic Space Defined
- Our Engaging Tendencies: Empathy, Character and Space
- The Machinery of Empathy: Ten Story Tactics that Trigger Our Empathy
- The Commercial Power of Empathy
- Comparing Christian in Fifty Shades of Grey with Edward in Twilight
- Topology: Three Forms of Character and Their Corresponding Narrative Spaces
- Book Outline
- Craft Theory: A Methodological Approach
- The Heart’s Cave
- Bibliography
- Chapter 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
- Defining Character
- The Centrality of Detecting Character for Survival
- The Social Circles of Intimacy
- Character Arc Defined
- Inner and Outer Goals, Objectives and Conflicts Defined
- Dispassionate Characters and Dispassionate Space
- Dramatic Characters and Dramatic Space
- The Dramatic Characters and Spaces of Little Miss Sunshine
- Gender Bias in Dispassionate and Dramatic Stories in Books for Children
- Empathy Invades the Dispassionate Story: Recent Cross-Over Pressures
- Bibliography
- Chapter 3 The Frozen Ones: Dantean Moments, Characters and Space in the films Aliens, Amelie, Sunset Blvd, Batman and others
- Defining Dantean Moments
- Dantean Characters
- Dantean Space and Empathy
- The Dead Heart Beats on: Dantean Space in Poe, Dickens and Hitchcock
- Aliens
- The Hidden Cauldron: Dangerous Dantean Characters
- Roles of Narrative Space
- The Tripled Lens of Character: The Three Layers of Time in Dantean Space
- Dantean Space, Rated G
- Bibliography
- Chapter 4 Character Vs. Emotion: How Music and Sound define Space in the films Little Miss Sunshine, 50 Shades of Grey, Twilight and Secretary
- On Distinguishing Character Representation from Emotional Representation
- The Emotional Music of Lego Friends and the Character Music of Little Miss Sunshine
- Understanding the Difference Between Emotional Representations and Character Representations by Applying the Characterological Manifold
- Spaces of Romantic Tryst
- The Characterological Manifold in Locations and Music
- The Character Music of Secretary
- The Characterological Manifold and Dispassionate Music Scores
- Emotional Space and Character Space
- Bibliography
- Part II Boundaries Visible and Broken: Empathy from Shade Space to Showcase Space
- Chapter 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
- Arcs that Bend Towards Hell, Heaven and Purgatory
- Active and Passive Hells
- Camus’ Novel The Fall
- How to Stay Active in Hell
- Inferno Arcs: Are You Stuck in Hell? Would You Know If You Were?
- One Hour Photo
- Space as Expressed Through Mis-en-scène and the Frame
- Empathetic Linkage of Dantean Frames
- Space in the Making: How to Build Your Own Dantean Space
- Dantean Space in Edgar Allen Poe
- Racing Towards Hell Only to Avoid it at the Last Minute: Murnau’s Sunrise
- The Third Man
- Bibliography
- Chapter 6 Ghosts and Shades and Place: Empathetic Hauntology in Gravity, Lars and the Real Girl, and Hiroshima Mon Amour
- Chapter 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
- Watching a Tragic Shade Seize Edith Piaf’s Throat : The Long Dolly in La Vie En Rose
- Entering the Shade: Crossing Sensuous Boundaries as a Technique of Intensifying Empathetic Space
- Dante’s Erasures of the Borders Between Self and World
- Come Be Trapped in My Family and My Mind: Dantean Space in Documentaries
- Living in a Collapsing Dantean Moment: Apocalypse Now
- On Prismatic Characters : Is There a Shade in This Story? Is This Dispassionate, Dramatic or Dantean Space? Is Willard a Dramatic or a Dantean Character?
- Bibliography
- Chapter 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
- DeathStarchitecture: The Non-Place Destined to Be Blown Up
- Tropes of Spatial Alienation
- “Ladies and Gentlemen We are Beginning Our Descent into Los Angeles”: Alienated Characters, Dialogue and Spaces in The Graduate
- Bitterness Examined
- Showroom Spaces
- Intimacy Reconsidered
- The Stress of the Job of the Sex: Gender and the Purgatorial Homes of Homeland
- Bibliography
- Part III How Not to Think like Dante Alighieri: The Social Implications of Dantean Space
- Chapter 9 How Not to Think Like Dante Alighieri: Guilt, Punishment and the Components of Dantean Space
- The Classical Roots of Dantean Space in Euripides, Ovid and Others
- Emotional Projection and the Characterological Manifold
- Judicial Pleasures Versus the Juridical Harmonies of Dantean Spaces: Reconsidering the Stories of Francesca and Prometheus
- The Social Isolation of Dantean Space
- Social Implications of Dantean Space
- Bibliography
- Chapter 10 Escaping Dantean Space: On Creating Zones of Care in the Biography of St. Teresa, in Marble and Makeup and through Cinematography
- Chapter 11 How To Create Ecstatic Space: Zones of Care in the Films The Secret Garden and Amelie, in the Video Game Wrath of the White Witch, and Beyond
- Heaven: Can Active Characters Have Heavenly Arcs?
- Innocence Reconsidered
- The Beauty of Being Frozen by Trauma: Heavenly Cities and Spaces in Burnett’s The Secret Garden and Other Narratives
- Innocence and Communal Empathetic Space in Video-Games
- Escaping Dantean Space
- Examples of Innocence in Europe and American Stories
- Our Empathetic Argument
- Empathy Reconsidered
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- A Backwards Foreword:
- Index