Star Wars montage to "Take On Me" by A-Ha



'Music undoubtedly does cause reported feelings of emotions and physiological changes, (...) there can be little doubt that these responses are not caused by real-world emotions. Like cinematic emotions, they are fictional, and can be thought of as ascribable to an imagined fictional character – whether a protagonist in a programme of our own invention, an operatic character, or an intra-diegetic narrator figure with which we might align a constructed version of the composer, for example. In that sense, music is indeed, as Kivy claims, only expressive of emotion, but in many people it also leads to the imagining of emotions in the same way that it does in other forms of fiction, to the extent that they might believe their emotional responses to be genuine.' Ben Winters, 21-22

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