Empathetic Space on Screen: Constructing Powerful Place and Setting

Empathetic Space on Screen: Constructing Powerful Place and Setting

Amedeo D'Adamo
$39.99
Publication Date: December 27th, 2017
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
9783319667713
Pages:
270

Description

Deals with the emotional aspect of viewing films, focusing on well-known films that are particularly and popularly powerful
Accessible in three ways: in style, in content (being about popular films and TV shows across all genres and that most readers will already know) and it's methodology bridges film theory and practice
While focused mainly on films and TV, it also connects forms of storytelling to figurative paintings and sculpture, epic poems, plays and video-games.

About the Author

Amedeo D'Adamo is Professor of Film at the Universita Cattolica, Italy and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Switzerland-Italia, Switzerland. He teaches documentary at the Locarno Film Festival and mentors for the MAIA Producing Workshops and Albascript Plus. A filmmaker whose features have played in top-ranked festivals, he was also the founding Dean of the Los Angeles Film School.