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Record Nr.

UNISA996333144103316

Autore

Coëgnarts Maarten

Titolo

Film as Embodied Art : Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick / / Maarten Coëgnarts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-64469-113-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

791.430233092

Soggetti

Film theory & criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.