Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games write by Kathrin Fahlenbrach. This book was released on 2015-10-05. Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to help us imagine complex, abstract, or invisible ideas, concepts, or emotions. Contributors to this book argue that metaphors occur not only in language, but in audio visual media well. This is all the more evident in entertainment media, which strategically "sell" their products by addressing their viewers’ immediate, reflexive understanding through pictures, sounds, and language. This volume applies cognitive metaphor theory (CMT) to film, television, and video games in order to analyze the embodied aesthetics and meanings of those moving images.
Metaphor, Nation and Discourse
Metaphor, Nation and Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metaphor, Nation and Discourse write by Ljiljana Šarić. This book was released on 2019-05-20. Metaphor, Nation and Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume examines how metaphors and related phenomena (metonymies, symbols, cultural models, stereotypes) lead to the discursive construal of a common element that brings the nation together. The central idea is that metaphor use must be questioned to lay bare the processes and the discursive power behind them. The chapters examine a range of contemporary and historical, monomodal and multimodal discourses, including politicians’ discourse, presidential speeches, newspapers, TV series, Catholic homilies, colonialist discourse, and various online sources. The approaches taken include political science, international relations, cultural studies, and linguistics. All contributions feature discursive constructivist views of metaphor, with clear sociocultural grounding, and the notion of metaphor as a framing device in constructing various aspects of nations and national identity. The volume will appeal to scholars in discourse analysis, metaphor studies, media studies, nationalism studies, and political science.
Video Games and the Mind
Video Games and the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Video Games and the Mind write by Bernard Perron. This book was released on 2016-07-14. Video Games and the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can a video game make you cry? Why do you relate to the characters and how do you engage with the storyworlds they inhabit? How is your body engaged in play? How are your actions guided by sociocultural norms and experiences? Questions like these address a core aspect of digital gaming--the video game experience itself--and are of interest to many game scholars and designers. With psychological theories of cognition, affect and emotion as reference points, this collection of new essays offers various perspectives on how players think and feel about video games and how game design and analysis can build on these processes.
Image Embodiment
Image Embodiment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Image Embodiment write by Lars C. Grabbe. This book was released on 2016-10-24. Image Embodiment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the new media environment, how are bodies and images related? How can, in other words, the human body be integrated with and reformulated in relation to the sensory and perceptual dimension? In response to this question, Image Embodiment looks not just to images and surface appearences but addresses at a deeper level the media that act as the supports for aesthetics. To think about visual culture in the twenty-first century necessarily implies the thinking of the specific role of media technologies. A view to media not only teases out the technical infrastructure of images but brings with it the potential for addressing the different sense modalities and realities of the human body. Recent theories of the sensory turn are effectively highlighting innovative approaches for an autonomous image science and media theory in general. Image Embodiment provides one part of the discourse to synchronize the concepts of image and body, which is then able to connect the perspectives of philosophy of mind, perceptual theory and media as well as image science. This volume monitors and discusses the relation of media and the human body and refers to images, embodiment and the sensory turn within the perspective of an autonomous image science.
Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television
Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television write by Ted Nannicelli. This book was released on 2021-11-25. Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciation. The chapters explore a number of questions including: How do the particularities of form and style in contemporary serial television engage us cognitively, emotionally, and aesthetically? How do they foster cognitive and emotional effects such as feeling suspense, anticipation, surprise, satisfaction, and disappointment? Why and how do we value some serials while disliking others? What is it about the particularities of serial television form and style, in conjunction with our common cognitive, emotional, and aesthetic capacities, that accounts for serial television’s cognitive, socio-political, and aesthetic value and its current ubiquity in popular culture? This book will appeal to postgraduates and scholars working in television studies as well as film studies, cognitive media theory, media psychology, and the philosophy of art.
