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Tone (literature)

A creative figure's attitude toward both a subject and also an audience French filmmakers such as Francois Truffaut (far right) have been cited as emotionally giving audiences a heightened sense of intimacy during their movies' scenes, with this psychological tone being there throughout a multitude of artworks. In literature, the tone of a literary work expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience. The concept of a work's tone has been argued in the academic context as involving a critique of one's innate emotions: the creator or creators of an artistic piece deliberately push one to rethink the emotional dimensions of one's own life due to the creator or creator's psychological intent, which whoever comes across the piece must then deal with. As the nature of commercial media and other such artistic expressions have evolved over time, the concept of an artwork's tone requiring analysis has been applied to other actions such as film production. For example, an evaluation of the "French New Wave" occurred during the spring of 1974 in the pages of Film Quarterly, which had studied particular directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and François T