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Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television: The Pulse of Our Times probes the emotional climate of contemporary Western societies through the lens of movies and TV productions. From our vacation culture to the ban on anger in contemporary American society, to emotional management, fear, and psychotherapy in the movies, and to the emotionally charged debate on the aging population and issues of care, leading scholars attempt a genuinely transdisciplinary exploration of emotions, film, and therapy as cultural forces that shape and create our emotional and cultural identities. Contextualizing what movies put on screen for entertainment, historians contribute to our understanding of emotions, for instance, how positive emotions, such as happiness emotions and self-enjoyment, and negative emotions, such as anger and emotional management that anger called for, created norms of behavior and patterns of social interaction over the course of the twentieth century. These developments were intertwined with audio-visual representations in complex ways. Scholars in film and TV studies and communication sciences supplement this picture by investigating the therapeutic potential of movies and their relationship with psychotherapy.
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Wassmann, C. (2015). An Introduction: Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television. In: Wassmann, C. (eds) Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137546821_1
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