Nordicom Review 30 (2009) 2, pp. 159-178 Beyond Conventional Fiction Film Engagement Abstract - - Keywords Introduction Big Fish feeling Big Fish Big Fish 160 idiosyncratic response imagine Big Fish 1996: 146) Theoretical Background 161 - - reader response reception analysis - 1 2 the spectator audiences 162 Emotions in Fiction Film Engagement - - 3 - 163 4 5 - - Alien - 6 164 Big Fish 165 Beyond Mere Fictional Engagement Through Freshly Perceived Experiences 7 8 - 9 From Empathy to In-his-shoes Imagining in-his-shoes imagining 10 egoistic drift 11 166 - 12 Steel Magnolias: 13 catharsis 167 From Transportation to Transformation transported transformation - - episode structure 14 168 - retrospective empathy - - - The Piano arresting images 169 scenes of empathy - - complexity 170 familiarity stereotyped Fictional Context as Coping Mechanism coping mechanisms 15 171 Capote La Vita È Bella 16 - 172 The Difference Between Empathy with Fictional Characters and Empathy in Real Life - 17 18 - 173 19 Empirical Research on Who Uses Fiction Film this Way Big Fish 174 - are supposed report Big Fish Conclusion Big Fish 175 20 Notes 28ff). - (2005). projection 176 References (ed.) Channels of Discourse, Reassembled. Television and Contemporary Criticism, 2 Poetics Today, 25: 2, pp. 205-240. Watching Dallas. Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23: 7, pp. 751-758. A Philosophy of Mass Art. (ed.) Aesthetics and Ethics. Essays at the Intersection Poetics Today, 25: 2, pp. 241-263. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 57: 4, pp. 399-409. Film and Philosophy Emotion and the Arts. Aesthetics and Ethics. Essays at the Intersection Passionate Views. Film, Cognition, and Emotion Arts and Minds Poetics, 23, pp. 91-106. Emotion in the Human Face, 2 Emotions Revealed. Understanding Faces and Feelings Reading with Feeling. The Aesthetics of Appreciation The Emotions American Psychologist, 43:5, pp. 349-358. Aesthetics and Ethics. Essays at the Intersection Experiencing Narrative Worlds. On the Psychological Activities of Reading The Emotions. A Philosophical Exploration Simulating Minds. The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading. Communication Theory, 14: 4, pp. 311-327. Moving Pictures. A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition. (ed.) Moving Images, Culture and the Mind Passionate Politics. The Cultural Work of American Melodrama From the Early Republic to the Present Screen, 37: 2, pp. 152-173. Empathy and Moral Development. Implications for Caring and Justice Approaches to Audiences. A Reader pp. 166-183. Everyday Mindreading. Understanding What Other People Think and Feel. 177 Personal Relationships Empathy and the Novel The Piano Screen, 47: 1, pp. 19-41. Dreaming of Fred and Ginger. Cinema and Cultural Memory Poetics Today, 25: 2, pp. 171-203. ) Emotion and Adaptation Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 69: 2, pp. 195-205. Research in the Teaching of English, 29: 1, pp. 37-58. New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective Poetics, 30, pp. 221-241. The Philosophical Review 83: 4, pp. 435-450. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Poetics, 23, pp. 53-74. Narrative Impact. Social and Cognitive Foundations (ed.) Emotion and the Arts pp. 263-281. Passionate Views. Film, Cognition, and Emotion The Aristotelian Society, Deeper than Reason. Emotions and its Role in Literature, Music, and Art Film Structure and the Emotion System Engaging Characters. Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema Narration and Spectatorship in Moving Images Conference Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives Crying at the Movies. A Film Memoir Interpreting Films. Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema Perverse Spectators. The Practices of Film Reception Emotion and the Structure of Narrative Film. Film as an Emotion Machine pp. 124-137. Norsk Medietidsskrift Montage/ AV Narration and Spectatorship in Moving Images, 178 British Journal of Aesthetics, 49: 2, 2009, pp. 109-128. Mimesis as Make-Believe. On the Foundations of the Representational Arts Poetics, 23, pp. 33-51. -