Over the past decades, metaphor has come to be seen as a trope that governs thought, not
just language. A consequence of accepting this view is that its manifestations should be …

Only recently, the broad research program of embodied cognition has fuelled a substantial
and ongoing body of research at the crossroads of cognitive science and film studies. Two …

Enacting the Worlds of Cinema offers a substantial reconfiguration of the textual roots of
modern film narratology. By giving sustained attention to cinema's material-affective modes …

Film theory has always regarded metaphor as relevant for both constituting and
understanding cinematic meaning. With its theses on embodied thought, the cognitive …

Abstract Fahr nicht betrunken Auto! Halte Dich (nicht) an Corona-Schutzmaßnahmen!–In
den Medienöffentlichkeiten demokratischer Gesellschaften finden sich eindringliche …

This book develops a transdisciplinary perspective at the interface between a linguistic study
of metaphor focused on language use and a theory of audio-visual media as moving images …

Aktuell erleben wir eine Konjunktur seriellen Erzählens, zu der jüngst besonders Streaming-
Plattformen beigetragen haben. Um diese langlaufenden Serien von anderen Serien …

This chapter presents an account of audiovisual metaphors in movies, which helps to
explain how complex cultural and narrative meanings are associated with bodily based …

This thesis proposes an interdisciplinary approach that aims to examine how one particular
strand of embodiment within cognitive science, namely the cognitive unconscious …

This paper explores different approaches to the study of audiovisual metaphor: the semiotic
and linguistic perspectives and the transition from the semantic to the pragmatic one, which …