Mette Kramer is a Danish scholar in film studies and cognitive psychology. She earned a PhD in film studies and cognitive and emotion psychology and has written on emotion, cognition, and film in a number of articles. She is the co-author of Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film (2018) and is working on an edited volume on shame and spectatorship.

Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition provides a unique approach in advocating for studying film that traverses the natural sciences and the humanities. This positions the book alongside others that also draw on neurological studies to inform their film analysis and adopts a clear and forceful cognitivist approach to the study of 'attachment films.'

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Emotion in the Attachment Film2. Attachment, Perception, and Emotion3. Attachment Theory, the Narrative Structure of Melodrama, and the Role of Emotional Regulation4. Character Engagement: "The Scene of Empathy" in the Attachment Film and its Aesthetics5. The Interaction of Affective-Motivational and Cognitive States State Transitions and Regulation in Engagement with Attachment Films6. The Pleasure of Experiencing Positive and Negative Attachment ScenariosReferencesNotesIndex

Mette Kramer is a Danish scholar in film studies and cognitive psychology. She earned a PhD in film studies and cognitive and emotion psychology and has written on emotion, cognition, and film in a number of articles. She is the co-author of Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film (2018) and is working on an edited volume on shame and spectatorship.

Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition provides a unique approach in advocating for studying film that traverses the natural sciences and the humanities. This positions the book alongside others that also draw on neurological studies to inform their film analysis and adopts a clear and forceful cognitivist approach to the study of 'attachment films.'

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Emotion in the Attachment Film2. Attachment, Perception, and Emotion3. Attachment Theory, the Narrative Structure of Melodrama, and the Role of Emotional Regulation4. Character Engagement: "The Scene of Empathy" in the Attachment Film and its Aesthetics5. The Interaction of Affective-Motivational and Cognitive States State Transitions and Regulation in Engagement with Attachment Films6. The Pleasure of Experiencing Positive and Negative Attachment ScenariosReferencesNotesIndex

Mette Kramer is a Danish scholar in film studies and cognitive psychology. She earned a PhD in film studies and cognitive and emotion psychology and has written on emotion, cognition, and film in a number of articles. She is the co-author of Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film (2018) and is working on an edited volume on shame and spectatorship.

Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition provides a unique approach in advocating for studying film that traverses the natural sciences and the humanities. This positions the book alongside others that also draw on neurological studies to inform their film analysis and adopts a clear and forceful cognitivist approach to the study of 'attachment films.'

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Emotion in the Attachment Film2. Attachment, Perception, and Emotion3. Attachment Theory, the Narrative Structure of Melodrama, and the Role of Emotional Regulation4. Character Engagement: "The Scene of Empathy" in the Attachment Film and its Aesthetics5. The Interaction of Affective-Motivational and Cognitive States State Transitions and Regulation in Engagement with Attachment Films6. The Pleasure of Experiencing Positive and Negative Attachment ScenariosReferencesNotesIndex