Cinematic Metaphor

Author : Trevor Whittock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521382114

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Metaphor and Film by Trevor Whittock Pdf

In Metaphor and Film, Trevor Whittock demonstrates that feature films are permeated by metaphors that were consciously introduced by directors. An examination of cinematic metaphor forces us to reconsider the nature of metaphor itself, and the ways by which such visual imagery can be recognised and understood, as well as interpreted. Metaphor and Film identifies the principal forms of cinematic metaphor, and also provides an analysis of the mental operations that one must bring to it. Recent developments in cognitive psychology, especially those relating to the nature and formation of categories, are called upon to explain these processes. Metaphor and Film ranges widely over film theory as it does over philosophical, literary, linguistic, and psychological accounts of metaphor. Particularly useful to those studying film, literature, and aesthetics, this study is also a provocative contribution to an important debate in which film theorists and philosophers are currently engaged.

Author : Cornelia Müller,Hermann Kappelhoff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110580785

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Cinematic Metaphor by Cornelia Müller,Hermann Kappelhoff Pdf

Metaphors in audiovisual media receive increasing attention from film and communication studies as well as from linguistics and multimodal metaphor research. The specific media character of film, and thus of cinematic metaphor, remains, however, largely ignored. Audiovisual images are all too frequently understood as iconic representations and material carriers of information. Cinematic Metaphor proposes an alternative: starting from film images as affective experience of movement-images, it replaces the cognitive idea of viewers as information-processing machines, and heals the break with rhetoric established by conceptual metaphor theory. Subscribing to a phenomenological concept of embodiment, a shared vantage point for metaphorical meaning-making in film-viewing and face-to-face interaction is developed. The book offers a critique of cognitive film and metaphor theories and a theory of cinematic metaphor as performative action of meaning-making, grounded in the dynamics of viewers' embodied experiences with a film. Fine-grained case studies ranging from Hollywood to German feature film and TV news, from tango lesson to electoral campaign commercial, illustrate the framework’s application to media and multimodality analysis.

Author : Sarah Greifenstein,Dorothea Horst,Thomas Scherer,Christina Schmitt,Hermann Kappelhoff,Cornelia Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110615036

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Cinematic Metaphor in Perspective by Sarah Greifenstein,Dorothea Horst,Thomas Scherer,Christina Schmitt,Hermann Kappelhoff,Cornelia Müller Pdf

Over centuries, scholars have explored how metaphor contributes to thought, language, culture. This collection of essays reflects on Müller, Kappelhoff, and colleagues’ transdisciplinary (film studies and linguistics) approach formulated in "Cinematic Metaphor: Experience – Affectivity – Temporality". The key concept of cinematic metaphor opens up reflections on metaphor as a form of embodied meaning-making in human life across disciplines. The book documents collaborative work, reflecting intense, sometimes controversial, discussions across disciplinary boundaries. In this edited volume, renowned authors explore how exposure to the framework of Cinematic Metaphor inspires their views of metaphor in film and of metaphor theory and analysis more generally. Contributions include explorations from the point of view of applied linguistics (Lynne Cameron), cognitive linguistics (Alan Cienki), media studies (Kathrin Fahlenbrach), media history (Michael Wedel), philosophy (Anne Eusterschulte), and psychology (Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.).

Author : Cornelia Müller,Hermann Kappelhoff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110579789

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Cinematic Metaphor by Cornelia Müller,Hermann Kappelhoff Pdf

Metaphors in audiovisual media receive increasing attention from film and communication studies as well as from linguistics and multimodal metaphor research. The specific media character of film, and thus of cinematic metaphor, remains, however, largely ignored. Audiovisual images are all too frequently understood as iconic representations and material carriers of information. Cinematic Metaphor proposes an alternative: starting from film images as affective experience of movement-images, it replaces the cognitive idea of viewers as information-processing machines, and heals the break with rhetoric established by conceptual metaphor theory. Subscribing to a phenomenological concept of embodiment, a shared vantage point for metaphorical meaning-making in film-viewing and face-to-face interaction is developed. The book offers a critique of cognitive film and metaphor theories and a theory of cinematic metaphor as performative action of meaning-making, grounded in the dynamics of viewers' embodied experiences with a film. Fine-grained case studies ranging from Hollywood to German feature film and TV news, from tango lesson to electoral campaign commercial, illustrate the framework’s application to media and multimodality analysis.

Author : Sarah Greifenstein,Dorothea Horst,Thomas Scherer,Christina Schmitt,Hermann Kappelhoff,Cornelia Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110613889

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Cinematic Metaphor in Perspective by Sarah Greifenstein,Dorothea Horst,Thomas Scherer,Christina Schmitt,Hermann Kappelhoff,Cornelia Müller Pdf

Over centuries, scholars have explored how metaphor contributes to thought, language, culture. This collection of essays reflects on Müller, Kappelhoff, and colleagues’ transdisciplinary (film studies and linguistics) approach formulated in "Cinematic Metaphor: Experience – Affectivity – Temporality". The key concept of cinematic metaphor opens up reflections on metaphor as a form of embodied meaning-making in human life across disciplines. The book documents collaborative work, reflecting intense, sometimes controversial, discussions across disciplinary boundaries. In this edited volume, renowned authors explore how exposure to the framework of Cinematic Metaphor inspires their views of metaphor in film and of metaphor theory and analysis more generally. Contributions include explorations from the point of view of applied linguistics (Lynne Cameron), cognitive linguistics (Alan Cienki), media studies (Kathrin Fahlenbrach), media history (Michael Wedel), philosophy (Anne Eusterschulte), and psychology (Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.).

Author : Christian Quendler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317434191

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The Camera-Eye Metaphor in Cinema by Christian Quendler Pdf

This book explores the cultural, intellectual, and artistic fascination with camera-eye metaphors in film culture of the twentieth century. By studying the very metaphor that cinema lives by, it provides a rich and insightful map of our understanding of cinema and film styles and shows how cinema shapes our understanding of the arts and media. As current new media technologies are attempting to shift the identity of cinema and moving imagery, it is hard to overstate the importance of this metaphor for our understanding of the modalities of vision. In what guises does the "camera eye" continue to survive in media that is called new?

Author : Kathrin Fahlenbrach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317531203

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Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games by Kathrin Fahlenbrach Pdf

In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to help us imagine complex, abstract, or invisible ideas, concepts, or emotions. Contributors to this book argue that metaphors occur not only in language, but in audio visual media well. This is all the more evident in entertainment media, which strategically "sell" their products by addressing their viewers’ immediate, reflexive understanding through pictures, sounds, and language. This volume applies cognitive metaphor theory (CMT) to film, television, and video games in order to analyze the embodied aesthetics and meanings of those moving images.

Author : Christian Quendler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317434184

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The Camera-Eye Metaphor in Cinema by Christian Quendler Pdf

This book explores the cultural, intellectual, and artistic fascination with camera-eye metaphors in film culture of the twentieth century. By studying the very metaphor that cinema lives by, it provides a rich and insightful map of our understanding of cinema and film styles and shows how cinema shapes our understanding of the arts and media. As current new media technologies are attempting to shift the identity of cinema and moving imagery, it is hard to overstate the importance of this metaphor for our understanding of the modalities of vision. In what guises does the "camera eye" continue to survive in media that is called new?

Author : Kathrin Fahlenbrach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317531210

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Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games by Kathrin Fahlenbrach Pdf

In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to help us imagine complex, abstract, or invisible ideas, concepts, or emotions. Contributors to this book argue that metaphors occur not only in language, but in audio visual media well. This is all the more evident in entertainment media, which strategically "sell" their products by addressing their viewers’ immediate, reflexive understanding through pictures, sounds, and language. This volume applies cognitive metaphor theory (CMT) to film, television, and video games in order to analyze the embodied aesthetics and meanings of those moving images.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Film criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012560236

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Film Criticism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lou Maier
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668786776

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How Film Metaphor is Used. Using the Example of Pixar's "Inside Out" by Lou Maier Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, http://www.uni-jena.de/, language: English, abstract: The example of the common metaphor “life is a rollercoaster” portrays how even such a simple form of the versatile device communicates a profound message, and helps us, language users, to grasp an abstract concept. Metaphor however, is not just a linguistic device, it is indeed fundamental in everyday life (Lakoff and Johnson 3). Even in the medium of film people make use of the device in the form of filmic metaphor. In all these different instances the omnipresent device allows us to understand and grasp abstract concepts by mapping them to another domain. Pixar’s Inside Out is a valuable example of how metaphor in film is used. The comedy-drama introduces five little figures who are embodiments of the five basic human emotions, and live in a young girls head. In the following paper I will analyse the movie Inside Out as an example of how metaphor in film is used to communicate and clarify human emotions. Prior to the investigation of the device in the computer-animated movie, a theoretical view on metaphor in general will be provided. On this occasion, I will present a rough overview of the conceptual metaphor theory. The concept of metaphor will then be elaborated in reference to film metaphor. Subsequently, I will apply the theoretical basis to the movie Inside Out. Pixar’s use of metaphor in the comedy-drama will be analysed in detail. With the focus on the following emotions: joy, sadness, and anger, I will demonstrate how the metaphor of emotion and brain function is displayed in the movie. Furthermore, the metaphorical visualisation of growing up will be addressed.

Author : Judith Mayne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015016952106

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Kino and the Woman Question by Judith Mayne Pdf

Kino and the Woman Question is a study of Soviet silent films in terms of their complex and often contradictory explorations of woman's position within socialist culture and narrative. Judith Mayne argues that representations of women shaped, subverted, or otherwise complicated the cinematic and ideological goals of Soviet film in the 1920s.

Author : James Monaco
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015054084606

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The New Wave by James Monaco Pdf

Analyse van de "Nouvelle Vague", een stroming in de Franse film uit de jaren 1960-1970, gezien vanuit Amerikaans standpunt

Author : Karen Sorensen Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3528117

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Grammar in Metaphor by Karen Sorensen Sullivan Pdf

Author : Stan Brakhage
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014493781

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Metaphors on Vision by Stan Brakhage Pdf

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