Introduction

Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith

I. Kinds of Films, Kinds of Emotions

Film, Emotion, and Genre

Noel Carroll

Sentiment in Film Viewing

Ed S.H. Tan and Nico H. Frijda

The Sublime in Cinema

Cynthia A. Freeland

The Emotional Basis of Film Comedy

Dirk Eitzen

II. Film Technique, Film Narrative, and Emotion

Local Emotions, Global Moods, and Film Structure

Greg M. Smith

Emotions, Cognitions, and Narrative Patterns in Film

Torben Grodal

Movie Music As Moving Music: Emotion, Cognition, and the Film Score

Jeff Smith

Time and Timing

Susan L. Feagin

III. Desire, Identification, and Empathy

Narrative Desire

Gregory Currie

Identification and Emotion in Narrative Film

Berys Gaut

Gangsters, Cannibals, Aesthetes, or Apparently Perverse Allegiances

Murray Smith

The Scene of Empathy and the Human Face on Film

Carl Plantinga