 Carroll’s view is an “erotetic” (or question-and-answer) theory of movie comprehension. The shape of this view is as follows: the data a movie-goer encounters generate the questions which the movie-goer consciously or unconsciously asks, the movie-goer waits for new data that supplies answers to those questions, and then the movie-goer updates and comprehends. What makes the view distinctive—and what has generated some controversy about it—is what the view depends on: the creation of so-called “Hollywood style” film conventions. By means of those conventions the problem of attention focus is resolved. For the conventions themselves (for example, variable framing) are the very devices in which specatorial attention is directed (Carroll 1985: 188). This set of effects has resulted in what is rightly called the “tyranny of movies” with respect to visual attention (Loschky et al. 2015) and is clearly a top-down theory.