Die Hard as an Emotion Symphony: How Reptilian Scenarios Meet Mammalian Emotions in the Flow of an Action Film
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Die Hard as an Emotion Symphony : How Reptilian Scenarios Meet Mammalian Emotions in the Flow of an Action Film. / Grodal, Torben Kragh.
In: Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, Vol. 11, No. 2, 01.12.2017, p. 87-104.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Die Hard as an Emotion Symphony
T2 - How Reptilian Scenarios Meet Mammalian Emotions in the Flow of an Action Film
AU - Grodal, Torben Kragh
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - The article will analyze how action films use different emotional sources of arousal to create narrative tension and suspense in the PECMA flow i.e. the mental flow of perceptions that activate emotions, cognition and action as described in Grodal 2009. It will analyze how different emotions link to each other or contrast each other in the narrative flow that you metaphorically might call an emotion symphony. The flow may create a time-out experience due to the way in which the action-oriented flow recruits consciousness in full, similar to the way in which music creates flow experiences as discussed by cognitive music aestheticians. The article will discuss how the flow supports character simulation and how it uses a small set of scenarios, HTTOFF-scenarios to drive the flow. To illustrate the symphonic flow it will make a close reading of John McTiernan’s Die Hard 1988.
AB - The article will analyze how action films use different emotional sources of arousal to create narrative tension and suspense in the PECMA flow i.e. the mental flow of perceptions that activate emotions, cognition and action as described in Grodal 2009. It will analyze how different emotions link to each other or contrast each other in the narrative flow that you metaphorically might call an emotion symphony. The flow may create a time-out experience due to the way in which the action-oriented flow recruits consciousness in full, similar to the way in which music creates flow experiences as discussed by cognitive music aestheticians. The article will discuss how the flow supports character simulation and how it uses a small set of scenarios, HTTOFF-scenarios to drive the flow. To illustrate the symphonic flow it will make a close reading of John McTiernan’s Die Hard 1988.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - karaktersimulering, kognitiv film teori, følelsesregulering, evolution, flow-oplevelser, paradigm scenarier, visuel æstetik
KW - character simulation
KW - cognitive film theory
KW - emotion regulation
KW - evolution
KW - flow experience
KW - paradigm scenarios
KW - visual aesthetics
U2 - 10.3167/proj.2017.110206
DO - 10.3167/proj.2017.110206
M3 - Journal article
VL - 11
SP - 87
EP - 104
JO - Projections (New York)
JF - Projections (New York)
SN - 1934-9688
IS - 2
ER -
ID: 185907682