Abstracts
Abstract
This article discusses the role of empathy based on evolutionary, human developmental, and neuropsychological theories in combination with film theory and analysis in order to explain the film viewer’s emotional reactions primarily to painful fictive scenarios.
Résumé
Prenant pour base les théories évolutionnistes, développementales et neuropsychologiques, alliées à la théorie et à l’analyse filmiques, cet article examine le rôle joué par l’empathie dans les réactions émotionnelles que provoquent, chez le spectateur, le visionnement de films de fiction à « forte charge émotive ».
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