Metaphor in Film: Examples and Insights from Students’ Work
Further developing visual and multimodal metaphor theory requires taking into account medium, mode, and genre. The medium of film has hitherto been rather sparsely studied for its metaphorical potential. In this paper I report good examples and exciting insights from assignments and essays by students in my “Metaphor & Film” MA elective, University of Amsterdam (Autumn 2024), clustering these in issues that deserve sustained scholarly scrutiny by the next generation of (film) scholars interested in metaphor.
Authors
- Charles Forceville (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6365-500X)
Institutions
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
- Published
- 2025-12-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2025.49.4.35-51
- Primary Topic
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00