Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games

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aesthetics
Anne Bartsch
Arkham City
Audiovisual Composition
Audiovisual Metaphors
audiovisual storytelling
Birger Langkjaer
Category=ATF
Category=CF
Category=JBCT
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Category=QDTN
Charles Forceville
Clemens Wollner
cognitive film theory
Cognitive Metaphor Theory
cognitive theory
Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Conceptual Metaphors
Contemporary Metaphor Theory
Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
embodied cognition media
Embodied Image Schemata
emotion
Emotion Metaphors
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eq_bestseller
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Event Structure Metaphor
expression
Felix Schroter
Film Metaphor
film studies
film theory
Fireman
game studies
Grand Theft Auto
Henning Albrecht
Hermann Kappelhoff
Image Schemata
Joseph G. Kickasola
literary theory
Luis Rocha Antunes
Maarten Coegnarts
Maike Sarah Reinerth
media studies
metaphor analysis in digital media
Metaphoric Source Domains
Multimodal Metaphors
multimodal narrative analysis
multimodality
narrative emotion research
Patrick Colm Hogan
perception
Peter Kravanja
Sarah Greifenstein
Sebastian Armbrust
Sebastian Moring
sensory perception cinema
Source Domain
Source Path Goal Schema
Target Domains
Television Series Twin Peaks
Torben Grodal
Vice Versa
videogames
West Germany
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780815386520
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Jan 2018
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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.

Kathrin Fahlenbrach is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany