The long-form television drama series Hannibal (Fuller 2013–2015) thematises the embodied imagination and the elicitation of empathy and ethical understanding at the level of narrative and characterisation as well as through character engagement and screen aesthetics. Using Hannibal as a case study, this research investigates how stylistic choices frame the experiences of screen characters and engender forms of intersubjectivity based on corporeal and cognitive routes to empathy; in particular, it examines the capacity for screen media to facilitate what neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese terms intercorporeality. As a constitutive aspect of intersubjectivity and social understanding that works through embodied simulation, intercorporeality invites a reconceptualisation of empathy and its association with ethical motivation and insight. Hannibal also introduces cannibalism as a dark metaphor for the incorporation of another into oneself, reflecting on empathy's ill-understood potential for negative affect and...

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同理心和精神病患者：布赖恩富勒的汉尼拔中的伦理、想象力和肉体

长篇电视剧《汉尼拔》（Fuller 2013-2015）在叙事和人物塑造层面，以及通过角色参与和屏幕美学，将具身想象、同理心和伦理理解的激发主题化。本研究以汉尼拔为案例研究，探讨风格选择如何构建银幕人物的体验，并基于共情的物质和认知途径产生主体间性形式；特别是，它研究了屏幕媒体促进神经科学家 Vittorio Gallese 所说的“intercorporeality”的能力。作为通过具身模拟起作用的主体间性和社会理解的一个构成方面，intercorporeality 引发了对同理心及其与道德动机和洞察力的关联的重新概念化。