Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

To cry or not to cry: how moving the audience to tears can backfire

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par Steve Waters, Professor of scriptwriting and playwright, University of East Anglia

“One must have a heart of stone not to read about the death of little Nell without laughing” was Oscar Wilde’s notorious response to the emotional onslaught of Charles Dickens’s 1841 novel, The Old Curiosity Shop. Having watched two films in two weeks about the death of a child, it offers a clue as to why I cried in only one.

In her journals, the novelist Helen…

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