Dexter’s Plastic Brain: Mentalizing and Mirroring in Cinematic Empathy
This essay revisits the question of empathy in film theory by looking at recent neuroscientific findings on affect, emotion and empathy. In film theory there is a classic division between cognitive approaches toward emotional engagement with characters, based on mentalizing or projecting oneself in...
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| Language: | English |
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Milano University Press
2014-10-01
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| Series: | Cinéma & Cie |
| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/cinemaetcie/article/view/16339 |