Abstract
The text discusses the issue of film reception and psychological mechanisms governing it. The main assumption is that the basis of film reception is active and rational creation of meanings combined with bodily experience and emotions. All those aspects – the cognitive, the somatic and the emotional one – form a psychological whole, but simultaneously they are always individualised. They should be analysed with reference to a particular viewer/user and their existential context and cultural protocols should be taken into consideration.reception; film; body; emotions; mind