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- Title
How Motion Shapes Thought in Cinema: The Embodied Film Style of Éric Rohmer.
- Authors
Coëgnarts, Maarten
- Abstract
This article provides an embodied study of the film style of the French filmmaker Éric Rohmer. Drawing on insights from cognitive linguistics, I first show how dynamic patterns of containment shape human thinking about relationships, a concept central to Rohmer's cinema. Second, I consider the question of how film might elicit this spatial thinking through the use of such cinematic devices as mobile framing and fixed-frame movement. Third, using Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series as a case study, I demonstrate how the filmmaker applies these devices--and with them the spatial thinking they initiate--systemically to shape the relationships of his films visually. Lastly, I use the results of this analysis to provide discussion and suggestions for future research.
- Subjects
ROHMER, Eric, 1920-2010; FILM genres; FILM studies; MOTION; FRENCH films; CAMERA movement
- Publication
Projections: The Journal for Movies & Mind, 2020, Vol 14, Issue 2, p26
- ISSN
1934-9688
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/proj.2020.140203