Film and the Emotions, Volume XXXIV

Peter A. French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics, Professor of Philosophy, and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Miami and he did post-doctoral work at Oxford University.  He was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) honorary degree from Gettysburg College in 2006. French is the author of twenty books including War and Moral Dissonance; The Virtues of Vengeance; Cowboy Metaphysics; Ethics and College Sports; Responsibility Matters; Corporate Ethics; and Collective and Corporate Responsibility. He has published dozens of articles in the philosophical and legal journals. Works by him have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, German, Italian, French, Serbian, and Spanish.  Howard K. Wettstein is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He holds a M.A. and Ph.D. from the City University of New York and a B.A. from Yeshiva College. He has authored two books, The Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language and Has Semantics Rested On a Mistake? and Other Essays, and edited others including Themes From Kaplan (co-edited) and Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity. He is currently writing a new book in the philosophy of religion; his work in that area includes such topics as doctrine and the viability of philosophical theology; the Book of Job and the problem of evil; the Akedah (the Binding of Isaac); the character of religious experience and religious life; and the roles of awe, ritual, and intimacy.Michelle Saint is a lecturer at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Arizona State University as well as a B.A. from The College of William and Mary in Virginia. Her dissertation focused on the nature of emotional engagement with fictional characters, and she works generally within the philosophy of fiction.

• Movies, the Moral Emotions, and Sympathy / Noel Carroll Film Appreciation and Moral Insensitivity / Susan L. Feagin"I Followed the Rules, and They All Loved You More": Moral Judgment and Attitudes toward Fictional Characters in Film / Carl PlantingaAmerican History X, Cinematic Manipulation, and Moral Conversion / Christopher GrauGetting Carried Away: Evaluating the Emotional Influence of Fiction Film / Stacie FriendThe Rationality of Emotion toward Fiction / Seahwa KimSeeing and Imagination: Emotional Response to Fictional Film / E.M. DadlezEmpathy and Identification in Cinema / Berys GautFiction Film and the Varieties of Empathic Engagement / Margrethe Bruun VaageHybrid Truths and Emotion in Film / Robert J. YanalWhy We Should Give Up on the Imagination / Derek MatraversMoving because Pictures? Illusion and the Emotional Power of Film / Robert HopkinsThe Ghost is the Thing: Can Reactions to FictionReveal Belief? / Aaron SmutsVivid Abstractions: On the Role of Emotion Metaphors in Film Viewers' Search for Deeper Insight and Meaning / Anne BartschFeeling Prufish / Murray SmithMixed Feelings: Conflicts in Emotional Responses to Film / James HaroldThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly as an Emotional Event / Tarja LaineWhimsicality in the Films of Eric Rohmer / Peter Lamarque and Peter GoldieBergman and the Film Image / Gregory Curry