Questions you need to ask yourself 1 What

Questions you need to ask yourself 1. What types of emotion did I experience? 2. How did these emotions shape my responses? (what did you do or feel in response to these emotions? ) 3. What are the reasons for my emotions? (How do the film work to bring about these responses? ) 4. How did these emotions shape my experience with the film? (Consider these emotions within the context of the whole film)

Quotes taken from Shame and Desire (Peter Lang) • Deborah Lupton put it, the emotions are treated as “somewhat sterile entities” that are “the outcomes of a logical sequence of information processing such as is performed by computers. ” • Emotions cannot always be rationalised (even whilst they motivate human action): they can be multiple, contradictory, irrational, and inexplicable.

Quotes taken from Shame and Desire (Peter Lang) • The cognitivists explore the way in which film narrative is structured in order to activate the spectator’s understanding of the cinematic event as emotionally relevant, after which their evaluation of the event become emotionally charged. The process of evaluation is related to the spectator’s understanding of how the film character appraises the event emotionally, and how this appraisal is intelligible in the situation in question (this quote links to question 4)