Coëgnarts, Maarten,

Film as Embodied Art : Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick / Maarten Coëgnarts. - Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2019] ©2019 - 1 online resource (264 p.)

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

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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.


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2001: A Space Odyssey.
20th century film.
Barry Lyndon.
Eyes Wide Shut.
Paths of Glory.
Stanley Kubrick;film;film studies.
The Shining.
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artistic intention.
cinema studies.
cognitive film theory.
cognitive linguistics.
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evolutionary theory.
film as language.
film scores.
film semiotics.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.