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... emotions not revealed . All through the puzzling movies , in other words , we are seeing events without understanding their meaning , particularly their emotional meaning . We are simply not permitted to become fully aware of what is ...
... emotions not revealed . All through the puzzling movies , in other words , we are seeing events without understanding their meaning , particularly their emotional meaning . We are simply not permitted to become fully aware of what is ...
Page 170
... emotional one in real life . " This event obviously says something about the emotional life of these people , but I don't know what , and it's only a film anyway . " The film puzzles , dis- turbs , presents us with an emotional riddle ...
... emotional one in real life . " This event obviously says something about the emotional life of these people , but I don't know what , and it's only a film anyway . " The film puzzles , dis- turbs , presents us with an emotional riddle ...
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... emotional experience and the intellectual prob- lems with which he concerns himself . The puzzling movie enables him to do this again — to put aside the emotional mysteries of the film and see it coldly , using intellection as a defense ...
... emotional experience and the intellectual prob- lems with which he concerns himself . The puzzling movie enables him to do this again — to put aside the emotional mysteries of the film and see it coldly , using intellection as a defense ...
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A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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