Cinema is an Affective medium.
This book focuses on key films.
Both aesthetically and eidetically, this new Cinema of affect allows viewers to make up their own minds about what they feel and think.
Yet, there is a counter-cultural current in Contemporary American Cinema that offers a more nuanced treatment of emotion.
Today, we are living through a new age of sensibility when emotion is given priority over reason.
Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as well as fear, anger, and hatred.
Cinema is an Affective medium