2 Cinematic Metaphor and Experience: Creating Fragile Realities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents IX
4. Conventions XV
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Setting the Stage for Cinematic Metaphor
7. Introduction 15
8. 1 Cinematic Metaphor as Poiesis: The Movement-Image as Starting Point 19
9. 2 Cinematic Metaphor and Experience: Creating Fragile Realities 40
10. 3 ‘Doing’ Cinematic Metaphors: Perception, Feeling, and Affective Entanglement 50
11. 4 Cinematic Metaphor and Embodiment 60
12. 5 Cinematic Metaphor as Commonly Shared Reality 70
13. Part II: Cinematic Experience and Audiovisual Figurativity
14. Introduction 83
15. 6 Experiencing Metaphoricity 85
16. 7 Audiovisual Figurativity Emerging from Cinematic Experience 100
17. Part III: Cinematic Expressive Movement: Affectivity and Metaphor
18. Introduction 129
19. 8 Cinematic Expressive Movement and the Poetics of Affect: Three Examples 131
20. 9 Movement-Image: From Body Movement to Cinematic Expressivity 146
21. 10 The Affective Dimension: Expressive Movements and Cinematic Metaphor 164
22. Part IV: Temporality of Cinematic Metaphor: Intertwined Dynamics on Micro and Macro Levels
23. Introduction 183
24. 11 Emerging Metaphorical Scenarios 185
25. 12 Intertwining Metaphorical Themes in a TV News Feature: REPORT MAINZ 196
26. 13 Unfolding Metaphoric Themes in a Feature Film: SPELLBOUND 207
27. Beyond Cinematic Metaphor 222
28. Appendix: Cinematic Metaphor – A Methodological Outline 226
29. Bibliography 249
30. Audiovisual Sources 265
31. List of Figures 266
32. Name Index 270
33. Subject Index 274
34. About the Authors 277