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GLOSSARY
Alignment: The process by which viewers engage with screen characters, via spatio-temporal
attachments and/or subjective access.
Allegiance: The process by which viewers morally evaluate screen characters, ranking them
in a system of preference, and forming attachments to given characters.
Autonomic: Reactions based on non-voluntary mechanisms (supported by the autonomic
nervous system) like laughter, crying, shivering.
Bottom-up: The process by which viewers organize the data perceived on screen, with little
input from their associated memories.
Canonical narration: A narration following a linear chain of cause and effect.
Cognitive identification: The process by which viewers participate in constructed fiction, by
identifying with characters on the basis of recognizing the characters' motivations, a
process also involving the emotions generated by this identification.
Diegetic narration: The presentation of information internal to the fictive world.
Distributed narration: A narration where the information is disclosed intermittently.
Downstream: The perception of images and sounds on screen which induce affective
reactions within viewers and activate hypotheses regarding possible actions.
Epistemic identification: The process by which viewers imagine believing what a screen
character believes, based on a shared perception or knowledge of events.
External focalization: The process by which the narration depicts an action through a
character's subjectivity, but integrated by another subjectivity, often connected to that
of the implied author.
Intensities: The 'emotional' tones connected to the activation of vivid perceptions.
Internal focalization: The process by which the narration depicts an action through a
character's subjectivity.
Narration: The way in which the story is presented.
Narrative: The story.
Non-diegetic narration: The presentation of information made available only to viewers.
Non-focalization: The process by which a narration simply depicts screen events, without the
information being filtered through any intra or extra diegetic subjectivity.
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