Embodied Cognition and Cinema

Maarten Coegnarts is finishing a PhD in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Antwerp. Peter Kravanja is a Research Fellow at KU Leuven. Mark Johnson is Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon.

FOREWORD
Mark Johnson

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FILM AS AN EXEMPLAR OF BODILY MEANING-MAKING
Maarten Coëgnarts and Peter Kravanja

PART I FILM FORM AND EMBODIED COGNITION

FILM NARRATIVE AND EMBODIED COGNITION: THE IMPACT OF IMAGE SCHEMAS ON NARRATIVE FORM
Miklós Kiss

EMBODIED VISUAL MEANING IN FILM
Maarten Coëgnarts and Peter Kravanja

FILM MUSIC AS EMBODIMENT
Juan Chattah

PART II CINEMATIC EMPATHY: ON EMBODIED SIMULATION MECHANISMS AND THE VIEWER

THE FLOATING WORLD: FILM NARRATIVE AND VIEWER DIAKRISIS
Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski

MODES OF ACTION AT THE MOVIES, OR RE-THINKING FILM STYLE FROM THE EMBODIED PERSPECTIVE
Michele Guerra

ART IN NOISE: AN EMBODIED SIMULATION ACCOUNT OF CINEMATIC SOUND DESIGN
Mark S. Ward

THE CHARACTER'S BODY AND THE VIEWER: CINEMATIC EMPATHY AND EMBODIED SIMULATION IN THE FILM EXPERIENCE
Adriano D'Aloia

PART III FROM EMBODIED MEANING TO ABSTRACT THOUGHT

FILMS AND EMBODIED METAPHORS OF EMOTION
María J. Ortiz

EMBODIED CINEMATIC SUBJECTIVITY: METAPHORICAL AND METONYMICAL MODES OF CHARACTER PERCEPTION IN FILM
Maarten Coëgnarts and Peter Kravanja

ON THE EMBODIMENT OF TEMPORAL MEANING IN CINEMA: PERCEIVING TIME THROUGH THE CHARACTER'S EYES
Maarten Coëgnarts and Peter Kravanja

EMBODIED ETHICS AND CINEMA: MORAL ATTITUDES FACILITATED BY CHARACTER PERCEPTION
Maarten Coëgnarts and Peter Kravanja

COGNITIVE SEMIOTICS REVISITED: REFRAMING THE FRAME
Warren Buckland

NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FILMOGRAPHY
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX