Online Construction of Multimodal Metaphors In Murnau's Movie Faust (1926)

This study explores multimodal metaphors and metonymies in Faust, a German Expressionist silent fiction movie by Murnau (1926). The article combines principles of psychocinematics, an interdisciplinary scientific field of enquiry, with the multimodal metaphor and expressive movement model, which loo...

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Published in:Metaphor and symbol 2017-07, Vol.32 (3), p.192-210
Main Author: Ureña Gómez-Moreno, José Manuel
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:This study explores multimodal metaphors and metonymies in Faust, a German Expressionist silent fiction movie by Murnau (1926). The article combines principles of psychocinematics, an interdisciplinary scientific field of enquiry, with the multimodal metaphor and expressive movement model, which looks into the temporal dynamics of metaphoric meaning-making by movie watchers. It is shown that interrelating both film-analytic approaches provides a deeper and more comprehensive insight into how figurative thought influences psycho-cognitive processes in the moviegoer's mind as they dynamically unfold in their cinematic contexts. Evidence is provided that Kappelhoff and co-workers' proposal can be complemented and enriched by psychocinematics findings on the allocation of visual attention and eye fixation, motion and image frame sensing, and mental activity underlying emotional and diagetic experiences.
ISSN:1092-6488
1532-7868
DOI:10.1080/10926488.2017.1338024