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Metaphor and Film

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AUTHOR: Trevor Whittock (#bookPeople)

DATE PUBLISHED: April 2009

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ISBN: 9780521108560

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In Metaphor and Film, Trevor Whittock demonstrates that feature films are permeated by metaphors that were consciously
introduced by directors. An examination of cinematic metaphor forces us to reconsider the nature of metaphor itself, and the
ways by which such visual imagery can be recognised and understood, as well as interpreted. Metaphor and Film identifies the
principal forms of cinematic metaphor, and also provides an analysis of the mental operations that one must bring to it. Recent
developments in cognitive psychology, especially those relating to the nature and formation of categories, are called upon to
explain these processes. Metaphor and Film ranges widely over film theory as it does over philosophical, literary, linguistic, and
psychological accounts of metaphor. Particularly useful to those studying film, literature, and aesthetics, this study is also a
provocative contribution to an important debate in which film theorists and philosophers are currently engaged.

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DATE PUBLISHED: April 2009
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9780521108560
LENGTH: 188 pages

DIMENSIONS: 229 x 152 x 11 mm

WEIGHT: 0.28kg
AVAILABILITY: Manufactured on demand: supplied direct from
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