Emotion Pictures

This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion - be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety - to examine cinematic emotion in depth. It will have resonance for academics and practitioners in several fields of psychology, including social work, psychiatry, and therapy.

Lucy Fischer is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA where she directed the Program for three decades.

Introduction: Film "The Emotion Machine"; 1. Animated Emotions Emblems of Feeling in Inside Out and The Emoji Movie; 2. Grief The Unbearable Heaviness of Being in Pieces of a Woman; 3. Trauma Black Boyhood and Moonlight; 4. Anxiety High Anxiety in Adaptation; 5. Guilt Blame and Culpability in 21 Grams; 6. Jealousy The "Green-Eyed Monster" in Fado; 7. Vengeance "Vengeance is Mine": Red Road; 8. Pity The Refusal of Pathos in Pity; 9. Lust Sex, Greed, and Murder in The Square; 10. Happiness Capturing Joy in Happy-Go-Lucky & Hector and the Search for Happiness; Afterthoughts