Review of: Dagmar Hoffmann (Hg.): Körperästhetiken. Filmische Inszenierungen von Körperlichkeit. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2010. — Kathrin Fahlenbrach: Audiovisuelle Metaphern. Zur Körper- und Affektästhetik in Film und Fernsehen. Marburg: Schüren Verlag 2010.

Authors

  • Benjamin Moldenhauer Universität Bremen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/933

Keywords:

Film, Körper, Männlichkeit, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

The anthology Körperästhetiken (body aesthetics) contains articles regarding different aspects of filmic enactments of bodies. Within the framework of a cultural studies perspective, the semantic content of the – not least male of female coded – body images in the discussed movies are surveyed. However, the articles leave unanswered how the audience’s cognitive and emotive processes of reception are structured exactly. A gap that is filled by Kathrin Fahlenbrach’s monography Audiovisuelle Metaphern (audiovisual metaphors). Fahlenbrach creates a theory of cognitive and emotional semantics which assumes that, in a movie experience, affect and meaning cannot be separated but have to be thought of together.

Author Biography

Benjamin Moldenhauer, Universität Bremen

Jahrgang 1980, Studium der Soziologie, Kulturwissenschaft und Philosophie in Bremen und Wien. Promoviert zur Zeit zu Sinn und Zweck des Horrorgenres.

Published

2011-01-24

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