Abstract
This chapter pursues two goals. First, I want to extend a critique that – despite their indebtedness to it – Gernot Böhme and Tonino Griffero have levelled against Hermann Schmitz’s notion of atmospheres: that atmospheres can be actively produced and that we can even reconstruct a poetics of atmospheres. However, and here I see a potential to add to Böhme and Griffero’s aesthetics myself, atmospheres are not only intentionally created by artists, architects or designers who want to evoke an atmospheric art experience, but also – voluntarily and involuntarily – by audiences who collectively perceive an opera, a theater performance, a concert or a film. Second, I aim to add to the discussion about collective emotions and emotional sharing by introducing the term spread collective emotions. Both shared and spread collective emotions are a subclass of collective emotions more widely conceived. But while shared emotions have garnered attention recently, spread collective emotions have flown below the radar. As an example I will look at the emotion of boredom: the boredom an audience collectively endures while watching an excruciatingly tedious film is not something they share—boredom is a spread collective emotion.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Atmospheres and Shared Emotions |
Editors | Dylan Trigg |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 135-151 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003131298 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780367674199 |
Publication status | Published - Nov-2021 |
Keywords
- emotions
- film
- cinema experience
- shared emotions
- emotional contagion
- boredom