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Genre scripts and appreciation of negative emotion in the reception of film

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2017

Ed S. Tan  and
Valentijn T. Visch
Ed S. Tan
Affiliation:
Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Dk2300, Denmark. http://mcc.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/545153 Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1018 WV, The Netherlands. e.s.h.tan@uva.nl http://www.uva.nl/en/profile/t/a/e.s.h.tan/e.s.h.tan.html
Valentijn T. Visch
Affiliation:
Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft Technical University, Delft 2628 CE, The Netherlands. V.T.Visch@tudelft.nl https://www.tudelft.nl/io/over-de-faculteit/persoonlijke-profielen/universitair-hoofddocenten/visch-vt/
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Abstract

The Distancing-Embracing model reserves a role for genre scripts in the hedonic valuation of negative emotion in art. Genre scripts, as defined in the target article, leave higher-level recipient intuitions out of scope. We argue that, in film genre scripts, lower-level stylistic features lend access to more complex conceptual knowledge, including pragmatic principles. The argument implies a consideration of the communicative dimension of aesthetic works, which could strengthen both factors of the Distancing-Embracing model.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e376
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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