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All the Right Responses: Fiction Films and Warranted Emotions

Choi, Jinhee (2003) All the Right Responses: Fiction Films and Warranted Emotions. British Journal of Aesthetics, 43 (1). pp. 308-321. ISSN 0007-0904. (doi:10.1093/bjaesthetics/43.3.308) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:14649)

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Abstract

Cognitive theories of emotions have provided us with explanations of how we emotionally engage with fiction, when we are aware that what is depicted is fictional. However, these theories left an important question unanswered: namely, what kinds of emotional responses to fiction are warranted responses. The main focus of this paper is how our emotional responses to fiction can be aesthetically warranted—that is, how emotions directed to fiction can be warranted given the fact that its object is an artwork. I consider three possible explanations of this phenomenon: the real?life principle, a correspondence model, and a functional model. I argue that the real?life principle and the correspondence model fall short of explaining how our emotional responses to film are aesthetically warranted, and instead I argue that a functional model provides such an explanation. In this paper, I will primarily focus on fiction films, although I will address novels and other art forms where necessary.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1093/bjaesthetics/43.3.308
Subjects: N Visual Arts
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts
Depositing User: Kevin Goddard
Date Deposited: 05 Dec 2008 11:47 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:53 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14649 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Choi, Jinhee.

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