Make Believe in Film and Fiction

Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling

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  • Karl Kroeber

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Introduction

This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction evokes morally inflected imagining, and how movies reveal through magnification of human movements and expression subjective effects of complex social changes.

Keywords

corpus culture ethics expectation experience fiction film genre Imagination novel perfect sculpture social change subject

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