Film as embodied art : bodily meaning in the cinema of Stanley Kubrick /
"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,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Brookline, MA, USA :
Academic Studies Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | "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, 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxxv, 228 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography, discography, and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781618118363 1618118366 9781644691120 1644691124 |