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Embodied Visual Meaning: Image Schemas in Film

Author(s) -

Maarten Coëgnarts,

Peter Kravanja

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

projections

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252

H-Index - 4

eISSN - 1934-9696

pISSN - 1934-9688

DOI - 10.3167/proj.2012.060206

Subject(s) - embodied cognition , mirroring , meaning (existential) , image schema , psychology , cognitive science , aesthetics , communication , computer science , art , cognition , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , cognitive linguistics , psychotherapist

This article examines embodied visual meaning in film, the ways that film makes use of recurring dynamic patterns of our shared bodily interactions with the world (image schemas) to communicate abstract meaning to the viewer. Following the lead of recent discoveries in the field of neuroscience, the article argues that this metaphorical transference of abstract thought by means of image schemas is possible via the activation of embodied mirroring mechanisms in the observer. This empathetic and physical encounter of the viewer with the representational content and form of the work is crucial to the understanding of abstract conceptual thought in film.

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