'Anyone can become a refugee:' strategies for empathic concern in activist documentaries on migration
| Autor: | Bianca Briciu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Social Psychology
media_common.quotation_subject Refugee 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography Media studies 021107 urban & regional planning Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Empathy 02 engineering and technology Representation (arts) Interconnectedness Narrative Sociology Identification (psychology) 050703 geography Empathic concern media_common |
| Zdroj: | Emotion, Space and Society. 37:100737 |
| ISSN: | 1755-4586 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100737 |
| Popis: | This article discusses the narrative and cinematic strategies used by activist documentaries on migration to enhance the empathy of spectators for the experiences of refugees. Empathy is not simply an emotion but an intersubjective skill of accessing the world of others and sensing our human interconnectedness. The paper focuses on Exodus, Our Journey to Europe and Exodus, The Journey Continues, a series of six documentaries, arguing that they create a viewing experience that enhances empathic concern through the use of haptic visuality, narrative witnessing and the personal accounts of the migrant protagonists. This paper examines empathy and its connections with cinematic identification, analyzing how it becomes articulated in activist documentaries through the representation of a multidimensional image of migrants. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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