Research on the Emotional Experience of Historical War Movies

In recent years, historical war films have become an influential cultural medium, with many productions achieving remarkable success in both box office performance and public recognition. By reconstructing historical events, these films enable audiences to understand history, admire heroic figures, strengthen patriotic awareness, oppose warfare, and appreciate the value of peace. With the rapid development of intelligent media technologies and advanced visual information transmission systems, the accurate presentation and perception of audiovisual content have gained increasing importance in interdisciplinary engineering research. This study collected 2,026 valid questionnaires to investigate the relationships among the technical, semantic, and effect layers of historical war films. Emotional experience was evaluated through both discrete emotions specific to war films and emotional engagement. The results reveal a sequential correlation and mediation mechanism among the three layers. Furthermore, audience emotional experience is primarily predicted by the semantic layer, followed by the effect layer, whereas the technical layer exhibits no significant direct influence. The findings provide useful insights for audience-oriented audiovisual content design and perceptual evaluation in intelligent multimedia systems.