Erotetic Narration

Abstract Both individually and together we have presented a view of a certain form of audience engagement with stories, including, among other things, a certain type of frequent kind of mainstream movie narration. We call that type of narrative erotetic and hypothesize that it engages audiences in processes of explicit but more often tacit questioning. In this journal, Jonathan Frome has criticized our approach on the grounds that it lacks evidence, explanatory power, and is unfalsifiable. In this article, we address Frome's criticisms.