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Part I. Developing the Approach: 1. An invitation to feel 2. The emotion system and nonprototypical emotions 3. The mood-cure approach to filmic emotion 4. Other cogniticisms Part II. Analyzing Films' Emotional Appeals: 5. 'Couldn't you read between those pitiful lines?' feeling for Stella Dallas 6. Stike-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. Afterward: 10. An invitation to interpret Part IV. Appendix: The neurological basis of psychoanalytic film theory: Metz's emotional debt to Freud the biologist.