MDIA 356 Film and Emotion
This course will explore the ways we engage emotionally with cinema, how movies invite us to feel empathic connections with characters, and how our affective experience shapes the ways we interpret information. Topics will include the rhetoric of disgust, the paradox of horror, the structure of empathy, and the
representation of emotions on screen. Films will include Get Out, Inside Out, The Fault in Our Stars, Interstellar, and The Hurt Locker.