What makes film its own art, why horror draws people in, and how a comic finds a voice in stand-up.
Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches that asks what is essential to motion pictures, and overlaps with the philosophy of film. The lessons answer what makes film its own art, helping readers understand how its nature can define its artistic identity. They consider the broader ideas through which film can be understood as a distinct art form.
The psychology of horror films focuses on mental, emotional, and psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle audiences. It often uses mystery and psychologically unstable, unreliable, or disturbed characters to heighten suspense, tension, and paranoia and create an unsettling atmosphere.
The history of stand-up comedy concerns an art form involving a stand-up comic and an audience, which originated in various traditions of popular entertainment in the late 19th century.
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