The missing link: Meunier on imagination and emotional engagement

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    Abstract

    In this chapter I consider the originality and applicability of Jean-Pierre Meunier’s phenomenological account of cinematic identification. I focus in particular on the key role assigned to imagination in his account of spectator identification, and describe some suggestive parallels with contemporary theorists’ accounts of imagination (as perceptual engagement, mental simulation or make-believe, and Murray Smith’s threefold ‘structure of sympathy’). Finally, I consider some difficulties in Meunier’s model – his overly clustered concept of ‘identification’; a tension between formal-phenomenological analysis and background cultural-historical pre-understanding; and his focus on character identification at the expense of background ‘world’ apprehension – that could be modified in order to enhance his original contribution to philosophical film theory.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe structures of the film experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier
    Subtitle of host publicationhistorical assessments and phenomenological expansions
    EditorsJulian Hanich, Daniel Fairfax
    Place of PublicationAmsterdam
    PublisherAmsterdam University Press
    Pages190-203
    Number of pages14
    ISBN (Electronic)9789048537846
    ISBN (Print)9789462986565
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019

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    Keywords

    • emotion
    • film-philosophy
    • identification
    • phenomenology
    • Jean-Paul Satre

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