Empathische cues und die Möglichkeit einer Affekt-Sprache des Films.

The recipient of film operates with the structure of film in an active way. This operation is the empathic work of the recipient that takes place on figures and objects in film. This empathic work serves as the basal comprehension of film - it's the film experience. Film experience and the semiologic process of empathy are based on the principle of data processing. The recipient extracts the relevant information from the screen representation and constructs an overall picture of narration and the structure of figures. This extraction proceeds in the structure of the empathic field (the dialectic generation of all perspectives and intentions of figures, animals or objects being part of the narration process) and with the decoding of the empathic cues (cues which organize the mental simulation of perspectives and intentions). The empathic cues generate impact and contain significant indication character of signs - they are located in the code of the film. They are a textual method/process: The analysis of their structure helps us to understand the conditions which generate the understanding of the recipient and helps us to analyse the potential of the structure of comprehension. The successful decoding of signs in the film-system - particularly with regard to the empathic cues - implies the understanding of the affect-language of film: empathic work decodes signs of film and generates impacts that lead to comprehension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]