Description
Book SynopsisHow 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.
Table of 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
