Cinematic Metaphor : Experience - Affectivity - Temporality / Hermann Kappelhoff, Cornelia Müller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Müller, Cornelia, author.

Kappelhoff, Hermann, author.

Contributor:

Greifenstein, Sarah.

Horst, Dorothea.

Scherer, Thomas.

Schmitt, Christina.

Series:

Cinepoetics ; Volume 4.

Cinepoetics - English edition ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Conventions

Introduction

Part I: Setting the Stage for Cinematic Metaphor

1 Cinematic Metaphor as Poiesis: The Movement-Image as Starting Point

2 Cinematic Metaphor and Experience: Creating Fragile Realities

3 'Doing' Cinematic Metaphors: Perception, Feeling, and Affective Entanglement

4 Cinematic Metaphor and Embodiment

5 Cinematic Metaphor as Commonly Shared Reality

Part II: Cinematic Experience and Audiovisual Figurativity

6 Experiencing Metaphoricity

7 Audiovisual Figurativity Emerging from Cinematic Experience

Part III: Cinematic Expressive Movement: Affectivity and Metaphor

8 Cinematic Expressive Movement and the Poetics of Affect: Three Examples

9 Movement-Image: From Body Movement to Cinematic Expressivity

10 The Affective Dimension: Expressive Movements and Cinematic Metaphor

Part IV: Temporality of Cinematic Metaphor: Intertwined Dynamics on Micro and Macro Levels

11 Emerging Metaphorical Scenarios

12 Intertwining Metaphorical Themes in a TV News Feature: REPORT MAINZ

13 Unfolding Metaphoric Themes in a Feature Film: SPELLBOUND

Beyond Cinematic Metaphor

Appendix: Cinematic Metaphor - A Methodological Outline

Bibliography

Audiovisual Sources

List of Figures

Name Index

Subject Index

About the Authors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9783110579789

3110579782

9783110580785

3110580780

OCLC:

1059272692