When did the sentimental start to mean 'awful'? Why are so many
popular mainstream films dismissed for their sentimentality, and
are there any meaningful differences between the sentimental and
the melodramatic? These are some of the questions addressed in
Charles Burnetts' illuminating genealogy of the concept as both a
literary genre and an aesthetic philosophy, a tradition that
prefigures the advent of film yet serves as a vital framework for
understanding its emotional and ethical appeal. Examining 18th
century 'moral sense' philosophy as a neglected but still important
intellectual area for film theory, and drawing on case studies of
film sentimentality during the early, classical and post-classical
eras of US cinema, Improving Passions is an innovative exploration
of the sentimental tradition as both theatrical genre and cultural
logic.
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