Make Believe in Film and Fiction: Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling

Kroeber, K.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2006-06-15

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349534012

DOI: 10.1057/9781403983220

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 228