Part I. Developing the Approach: 1. An invitation to feel
2. The emotion system and nonprototypical emotions
3. The mood-cue approach to filmic emotion
4. Other cognitivisms
Part II. Analyzing Emotional Appeals in Film: 5. 'Couldn't you read between those pitiful lines?': feeling for Stella Dallas
6. Strike-ing out: the partial success of early Eisenstein's emotional appeal
7. Lyricism and unevenness: emotional transitions in Renoir's A Day in the Country and The Lower Depths
8. Emotion work: The Joy Luck Club and the limits of the emotion system
9. 'I was misinformed': nostalgia and uncertainty in Casablanca
Part III. Afterword: 10. An invitation to interpret
Appendix: the neurological basis of psychoanalytic film theory: Metz's emotional debt to Freud the biologist
Notes
Index.

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