This article examines how three classic Hindi films—Pyasaa, The Guide, and Jagate Raho—draw on Indic paradigms of devotional love and śānta rasa and how they use “wonder” as a resolution to distressing emotions experienced by the characters and elicited in the viewer. To this effect, the article emphasizes how socio-cultural models of appraisal elicit various kinds of emotion, and, from this culturally situated but broadly universalist perspective, it traces the journey of the protagonists from fear, dejection, and despair toward amazement and peace. Among contemporary cognitive theories of emotion, the article uses perspectives drawn from the appraisal theory.
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fear and disgust. In his chapter on “Horror” in the Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film , for instance, Aaron Smuts (2009, 505 ) presupposes, without ever questioning it, the view that horror fictions warrant fear and disgust. Or, to mention
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focus on just a few standard or garden-variety emotions films can evoke in viewers, emotions like fear, sadness, disgust, or anger (see, for instance, Grodal 2017 ). Beyond this narrow spectrum we can surely discover a wide field of emotions that have
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letters). Four of these have their roots back in our reptilian ancestors: ANGER (aggression), FEAR (sexual), LUST, and SEEKING. SEEKING is a dopamine-supported emotional system that backs up the seeking for future gratifications such as food and sex, but
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typically fictional, the events depicted in films often elicit emotional reactions in their viewers; indeed many film scenes are created with the explicit purpose of inducing particular emotions, such as fear or surprise. Explaining how viewers react to
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movement of his shoulders, as though he is breathing quickly and preparing bodily for flight, becomes suggestive, in this particular context, of fear at the prospect of his empowered mother-in-law. The kitchen scene, just before Mathias’s response, can feel
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experience high-level and other-directed emotions such as admiration and pity. In contrast, simulation theory (or embodied simulation theory), which is based on the mirror mechanism, may explain self-directed and sensory emotions, such as fear and disgust
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and suggests a solution to the paradox of horror that makes explicable and appropriate a combined and fully integrated response of fear, fascination, and disgust (2017: 204). When we move beyond solutions to paradoxes, however, the role of scientific
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particularity? How much illumination of artworks can a focus on such basic states as fear, disgust, and anger really provide? In Chapter 8, “Feeling Prufish,” I meet this objection half-way. The significance of genre categories shows that we do not understand or
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