Unlikely Empathy: The Process and Effect of Identification in Listen

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  • Mette Hjort
The close-up of the human face is regarded as an effective means of fostering audiences’ identification with characters. Listen effects an empathic involvement with a character whose face remains covered throughout. A creative experiment with identification, Listen yields insights that contribute to debates in the philosophy of film.
Original languageEnglish
JournalShort Film Studies
Volume8
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)73-77
Number of pages5
ISSN2042-7824
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

    Research areas

  • Faculty of Humanities - aspectual identification, empathy, epistemic identification, global identification, sympathy, twinning

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