Abstract
Abstract The current article outlines a theory for character re-identification across films and fictional works: that is, by which interpretive operations does a viewer, spotting a character in film-y, understands that it is the same character identified on the occasion of a prior film-x? While this seems to be a mundane activity, consideration of multiple examples discloses that such acts mobilize sophisticated and abstract concepts and inferences, requiring theoretical insight. Such insight comes by way of Julius Moravcsik's application of Aristotelian concepts to lexical theory. The alignment of the latter—lexical theory—to film interpretation raises deeper questions as to the link of cognition to language, whose implications for future film scholarship are acknowledged in the conclusion.
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