Audiovisual meaning-making as embodied artistic production: Metaphor meets narrative

Horst, Dorothea

doi:10.1075/ftl.17.03hor

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Figurativity and Human Ecology
Edited by Alexandra Bagasheva, Bozhil Hristov and Nelly Tincheva
[Figurative Thought and Language 17] 2022
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Metaphor meets narrative

Audiovisual meaning-making as embodied artistic production

Dorothea Horst | Europa-Universität Viadrina

Prevalent cognitive readings of narrative in film have generally described it as a causal-logical re-organization of audiovisually represented agents, actions and spaces that is achieved through mental processing. Suggesting that such a perspective fundamentally disregards the media mode of perception that distinguishes film-viewing from other media experiences, the chapter proposes an alternative view. It presents an analysis of a TV news feature in order to demonstrate that metaphor and film share a coupling of two distinct realms of experience that provides the grounds for a fictional world and a narrative to emerge. The chapter concludes with an understanding of narrative as a dynamic embodied process of “narrativizing” instead of a product being reconstructed from given representations.

Keywords: narrative, metaphor, embodied experience, meaning-making, mediality

Article outline

1.Narrative and metaphor: Intertwining meaning-making principles in film
2.Filmic storytelling and understanding: As easy as it is?
3.Coupled realms of experience: How film and metaphor create fictional worlds
4.A feeling of standstill and a story of a controversial (trading) project
- 4.1A feeling of complete standstill
- 4.2The flotation of Deutsche Bahn in terms of a stopped train
- 4.3Being shunted aside by controversies
5.Narrativizing as embodied process: Creating stories from and through felt experience
Notes
Audiovisual sources
References

Published online: 10 November 2022

https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.17.03hor

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