Film and the Emotions, Volume XXXIV

Film and the Emotions explores the complicated relationship between filmed entertainment, such as movies and television shows, and our capacity to feel emotions. This volume of The Midwest Studies in Philosophy covers topics such as the role of imagination in our capacity to respond emotionally to films, how emotions felt in response to films relate to emotions felt about real events, and the moral implications of responding emotionally to fictions, among others. This collection includes nineteen original articles from experts on film and emotion, including Noel Carroll, Gregory Currie, Susan Feagin, Stacie Friend, Robert Hopkins, Peter Lamarque and Peter Goldie, Derek Matravers, Carl Plantinga, and Murray Smith.

Movies, the Moral Emotions, and Sympathy / Noel Carroll Film Appreciation and Moral Insensitivity / Susan L. Feagin "I Followed the Rules, and They All Loved You More": Moral Judgment and Attitudes toward Fictional Characters in Film / Carl Plantinga American History X, Cinematic Manipulation, and Moral Conversion / Christopher Grau Getting Carried Away: Evaluating the Emotional Influence of Fiction Film / Stacie Friend The Rationality of Emotion toward Fiction / Seahwa Kim Seeing and Imagination: Emotional Response to Fictional Film / E.M. Dadlez Empathy and Identification in Cinema / Berys Gaut Fiction Film and the Varieties of Empathic Engagement / Margrethe Bruun Vaage Hybrid Truths and Emotion in Film / Robert J. Yanal Why We Should Give Up on the Imagination / Derek Matravers Moving because Pictures? Illusion and the Emotional Power of Film / Robert Hopkins The Ghost is the Thing: Can Reactions to Fiction Reveal Belief? / Aaron Smuts Vivid Abstractions: On the Role of Emotion Metaphors in Film Viewers' Search for Deeper Insight and Meaning / Anne Bartsch Feeling Prufish / Murray Smith Mixed Feelings: Conflicts in Emotional Responses to Film / James Harold The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as an Emotional Event / Tarja Laine Whimsicality in the Films of Eric Rohmer / Peter Lamarque and Peter Goldie Bergman and the Film Image / Gregory Curry