This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction evokes morally inflected imagining, and how movies reveal through magnification of human movements and expression subjective effects of complex social changes.
Make Believe in Film and Fiction: Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling
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Brutal Beginning: Imagining Murder/Watching Murder Moving Eyes, Moving Sculptures Inside and Outside Somebody Else's Fantasy Make Believe is Always a Story Single-Handed and Collective Make Believe Movies and Hyper-Visual Culture La Strada and the Conjecturing Imagination Madame Bovary : Linguistic Configurings of Imaginative Corruption Rashomon and Wuthering Heights Form in Visual Storytelling: Buster Keaton's The General Genre and Transforming Sources: High Noon Forenoon Seeing and Imagining Ethical Crises: High Noon : Afternoon Great Expectations : Insights from the Impossibility of Adaptation Magnifying Criminality: Fargo , Film Noir, and A Perfect World Innovative Lawfulness: Learning to Read Works Cited Index
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