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A Perspective on Visual Metaphor in Documentary Film Cover

A Perspective on Visual Metaphor in Documentary Film

Open Access
|Dec 2022

Abstract

This study explores more aspects of visual metaphor. In the beginning, we wanted to show how linguistic metaphor created a link to visual metaphor. Then, for a better understanding, we talked about the composition of image, the visual rhetoric effects on audience and about the cinema language and its characteristics. We consider that visual metaphor can be analysed in visual products by decoding, to understand the author’s intention, but new meanings can also be created by the audience. In the examples we gave, we identified creative, plastic and ideological metaphors that showed a strong impact through their construction. Visual metaphor is a trope with great possibilities of expression and meaning, in new cinematic forms.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2022-0017 | Journal eISSN: 2601-1182 | Journal ISSN: 1221-2245
Language: English, Romanian, German, French
Page range: 53 - 68
Published on: Dec 26, 2022
Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2022 Raluca Iulia Bancoş, published by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
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