Cinematic Metaphor

Cornelia Müller; Hermann Kappelhoff

Published by De Gruyter 2018

Cinematic Metaphor

Experience – Affectivity – Temporality

Cornelia Müller and Hermann Kappelhoff

In collaboration with: Sarah Greifenstein, Dorothea Horst, Thomas Scherer and Christina Schmitt

Volume 4 in the series Cinepoetics – English edition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110580785

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Contents

About this book

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 information

Cornelia Müller, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany; Hermann Kappelhoff, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Conventions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XV
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Setting the Stage for Cinematic Metaphor
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
1 Cinematic Metaphor as Poiesis: The Movement-Image as Starting Point Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2 Cinematic Metaphor and Experience: Creating Fragile Realities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3 ‘Doing’ Cinematic Metaphors: Perception, Feeling, and Affective Entanglement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
4 Cinematic Metaphor and Embodiment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
5 Cinematic Metaphor as Commonly Shared Reality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Part II: Cinematic Experience and Audiovisual Figurativity
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
6 Experiencing Metaphoricity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
7 Audiovisual Figurativity Emerging from Cinematic Experience Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Part III: Cinematic Expressive Movement: Affectivity and Metaphor
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
8 Cinematic Expressive Movement and the Poetics of Affect: Three Examples Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
9 Movement-Image: From Body Movement to Cinematic Expressivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
10 The Affective Dimension: Expressive Movements and Cinematic Metaphor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Part IV: Temporality of Cinematic Metaphor: Intertwined Dynamics on Micro and Macro Levels
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
11 Emerging Metaphorical Scenarios Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
12 Intertwining Metaphorical Themes in a TV News Feature: REPORT MAINZ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
13 Unfolding Metaphoric Themes in a Feature Film: SPELLBOUND Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Beyond Cinematic Metaphor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Appendix: Cinematic Metaphor – A Methodological Outline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Audiovisual Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics interested in Metaphor Studies, Film/Media studies, Communication Studies, Applied/Cognitive linguistics
Pages
- Front matter: 16
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 71
- Coloured Illustrations: 12
Keywords: Cinematic metaphor; audiovisual media; gesture; multimodality

eBook

Published: October 8, 2018
ISBN: 9783110580785

Hardcover

Published: October 8, 2018
ISBN: 9783110579598

Paperback

Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110709070