Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick - Paperback

by Maarten Coëgnarts (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Maarten Coëgnarts holds a PhD in Film Studies and Visual Culture and an MA in Sociology (University of Antwerp). Since 2010 he has researched the interplay between metaphor, image schemas, and cinema. The results have been published in various peer-reviewed journals such as Metaphor and Symbol, New Review of Film and Television Studies and Projections. He is also co-editor of the book Embodied Cognition and Cinema (Leuven University Press, 2015).