Narrative Engagement: Film and the Moral Imagination

This book distinguishes between 'smooth' and 'generative' engagement to show how film form and content can greatly impact the film viewer’s embodied imagination. Drawing from notable scholarship in film and media studies, aesthetics and media psychology, the book shows how these disciplines approach similar issues from varied perspectives.

It develops a model of narrative engagement and its subtypes, showing how these can account for the moral imagination in relation to character engagement,...