Cinescopes

Cinescopes

3.48 of 5 stars 3.48  ·  rating details  ·  21 ratings  ·  3 reviews
Lights! Camera! Psychoanalysis!

Discovering something new about your personality is as easy as making a list of your ten favorite movies.

In Cinescopes, you’ll learn about your strengths, weaknesses, and innermost secrets, all based on the movies you most enjoy. This unique form of personality assessment blends psychology and cinematic analysis to reveal sixteen core per...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published November 1st 2007 by Quirk Books
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Deirdre
Like everyone said, this really isn't a book you sit down and read cover to cover, but fun for those who love personality assessments, not to mention movie recommendations like I do. How it works is that you write down your top ten favorite films of all time, then look in the back of the book for them and write down the code(s) for each movie. Each code corresponds with a movie personality type, and the code that appears the most often on your list is your cinescope (I was both a Charismatic Per...more
Erin
This isn't really a book you read, but I looked at most of it. I thought it would be cuter than it was.
Crystal
Feb 17, 2008 Crystal rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: movie fanatics, people who like any new personlity theory
amusing, and yet fluffier than I somehow expected. I guess I should have known any personality type theory based on your taste in movies would pay more attention to movies than to realistic personality type descriptions. Still, a fun read, if nothing else, just for the movie suggestions and quotations.
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