March, Movies, Metaphors cont.. 3/2

Cinema is an art medium that adapts freely and easily the coventions of other arts, turning them to its own purposes.The range of reference accessible to cinema is infinite
-Allusions are important in film for the comprehension of the audience, if they don't pick up on it they could be pulzzled by them
-Film has to capture audiences interest and sustain it
-One special property of film is its ability to present a variety of images concurrently

Metaphors We Live By
*Ontological Metaphors
-Spatial orientations orovide basis for understanding ub irientational concepts
-Understanding Our Experiemces in terms of objects and substances allow us to pick out parts of our experience
-Ontological Metaphors = ways of viewing events, activities, emotions and ideas,  reflect the kinds of purposes served
-Like orientational metaphors they serve a limitied range of purposes reffering, quantifying, etc
-Ex: The mind is a michine metaphor
He broke down (the mind is a machine)
He cracked up (the mind is a brittle object)

*Contaner Metaphors
-Physically a container is a room, house, physical objects bounded by surfaces
-Metaphorically a container has no natural physical boundary to define a container, we impose boundaries marking off territory so that it has an inside and a bounding surface doing thing is an act of quantification
-Ex: Tub of water .. physically the tub is the container object but water is the container subject

*Personification
Where the physical object is being specified as being a person. This allows us to comprehend a wide variety of experiences with non human, entities in terms of human motivations, characteristics and activities.
Ex: Life has cheated me..Inflation is eating up our profits

*Metonymy
-Using one entity to refer to another that is related to it
Ex: He's in dance...Acrylic has taken over the art world.
-Synecdoche = Where the part stands for the whole
Ex: The automobile is clogging our highways.
-Sometimes it allows us to focus more specifically on certain aspects of whar is being reffered too.


Rhetorics of Fantasy
*The Intrusion Fantasy
-One rhetorical function of the intruder in an otherworld fantasy is to render that other world more real by the virtue of juxtaposition
-intrustion fantasy can function as immersive fantasy in that it sometimes demands that the protaganist if not the other characters accept the fantastic as normal
-The trajectory of the intrusion fantasy = straight forward, the world is ruptured by the intrusion which disrupts normality and has to be negotiated with or defeated, sent back whence it came or controlled
-Sometimes the intrusion wins, but there is always a return of some kind
-Rhetorically, the  form appears to depend on both the naivete of the protaganist and his/her awareness of the permeability of the world- a distrust of what is known in favor of what is sensed
-Lack of trust sets up an interesting dynamic around the issue of what is known
-The trajectory of intrusion fantasy is from denial to acceptance
-Its usually a "this world" fantasy, the narrative leads toward the acceptance of the fantastic,by the reader if not the protagonist
-Rythm= suspension, release, latency, escalation, hesitation, and remorselessness
-It constructs its suspension through escalation
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