Footnote #17 - Metaphor
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The power of symbolism and the creativity of the metaphorical are the focus of Footnote #17, which seeks to distinguish Metaphor through animation’s identity as a ‘metaphorical’ medium and, as a consequence, its fundamental rhetorical and symbolic potential. Topics for Chris and Alex include the thorny issue of film when considered as a language, and whether or not we can see images as symbols in the same way as written words; the split between denotative and connotative interpretation in the examination of media; metonym and the role of imagination; the commitment of animation to ‘the idea’ and the cultural specificity of this act of creation; and the use of fantasy as a psychoanalytical process of metaphorical meaning making.
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Suggested Readings
Feyersinger, Erwin, and Carmen Hannibal. 2021. “A Virtual Roundtable on Relations Between Metaphor and Metamorphosis (Parts 1-4),“ animation2.0 blog, available at: https://blog.animationstudies.org/?author=220.
Hampe, Beate, ed. 2017. Metaphor: Embodied Cognition and Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wells, Paul. 1998. Understanding Animation. London: Routledge.