Film as Embodied Art

Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick

Maarten Coegnarts (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2019
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
9781644691120 (ISBN)

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Reveals Stanley Kubrick to be a genuine master of the art of embodying the mental life of characters — a filmmaker who perhaps more than any other director, uses all the resources of filmmaking in such a controlled and dense manner as to elicit the embodied conditions necessary to achieve a level of conceptual depth.

How do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning when music in essence is an abstract and non-representational art form? Drawing on state-of-the-art discoveries within embodied cognitive science, this book sets out to address these and other questions by revealing Kubrick as a genuine artist of embodied meaning-making, a filmmaker who perhaps more than any other director, uses all the resources of filmmaking in such a controlled and dense manner as to elicit the embodied tools necessary to achieve a level of conceptual clarity.

Maarten Coëgnarts holds a PhD in Film Studies and Visual Culture and an MA in Sociology (University of Antwerp). Since 2010 he has researched the interplay between metaphor, image schemas, and cinema. The results have been published in various peer-reviewed journals such as Metaphor and Symbol, New Review of Film and Television Studies and Projections. He is also co-editor of the book Embodied Cognition and Cinema (Leuven University Press, 2015).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: The Theoretical Context of This Study
CHAPTER 1: Identifying the Meaning: In Search of the Concepts of Kubrick's Films
CHAPTER 2: Embodying the Meaning: The Role of Image Schemas, Metaphors, and Metonymies
CHAPTER 3: Setting the Conditions of Embodied Meaning-Making in Film: The Role of Film Style and Acting
CHAPTER 4: Fleshing Out the Embodied Meaning Visually: The Art of Kubrick
CHAPTER 5: Seeing and Listening to Kubrick's Films: The Embodied Film Viewer
Appendix
Glossary
Filmography
Discography
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 215 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781644691120 / 9781644691120
Zustand	Neuware