Breath and the Body of the Voice in Cinema

Garwood, Ian; Greene, Liz

doi:10.3828/msmi.2016.6

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“…, 2001 to investigate the locale where the breathing of onscreen characters meets that of the spectators they affect. Edited by Garwood and Greene (2016), the issue of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image titled 'Breath and the Body of the Voice in Cinema' considers breath mainly as a constituent of vocal utterances. In their contributions, Greene (2016) and Ward (2016), for instance, address the manipulation of breath by actors and editors and the acousmatics of cinema theaters.…”

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Breath: image and sound, an introduction

Tremblay

2018

New Review of Film and Television Studies

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In concert with an account of the HBO series The Leftovers (2014-2017) as a respiratory drama, this introduction considers scholarly precedents for this special issue and outlines its intervention into the research on breath across screen cultures. The essays compiled here seek to broaden the archive of media objects definable by the breathing they render, specify the relation between on-and offscreen breathing, and redraw the taxonomies of artistic genres and genres of the self associated with breathing.

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Breath: image and sound, an introduction

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Introduction: Reading Breath in Literature

Rose

2018

Reading Breath in Literature

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This chapter presents current debates around breathing and breathlessness in the medical humanities and frames this collection of essays as a series of interventions that attend to literature's role in such debates. Specifically, these essays consider what literature might offer to discussions of breath as a phenomenon that blends physiology with culturally rich metaphors. Keywords Breath • Medical humanities • Markedness • Embodied poetics • Literature Breath is an autonomic function that is essential for life. Luce Irigaray writes, in "The Age of Breath," "breathing, in fact, corresponds to the first autonomous gesture of a human being." 1 In a less anthropocentric, more physiological sense, breath, as a term, catches and brings together all those processes by which beings with lungs take in and release air: the mechanical, the chemical, the affective and the metaphoric. The diaphragm contracts. It drops. A vacuum appears in the chest cavity, which allows the lungs to expand with air. While the lungs are surfeit with air, oxygen passes through thin membranes in the alveoli to bond with haemoglobin, which, in turn, releases its load of carbon dioxide. The experience can be ecstatic, as for Keri Hulme in this description of breathing CHAPTER 1

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Facing cancer: metaphors in medical animation films

Gebraad,

Forceville

2024

Visual Communication

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Conceptual Metaphor Theory claims that metaphors are a key instrument for making abstract and complex phenomena comprehensible. Cancer, one of the deadliest diseases in the world, is one such complex phenomenon. Hitherto, metaphors pertaining to the nature and treatment of cancer, and to coping with it, have been analysed almost exclusively in verbal communication. Cancer metaphors, however, are also often audio-visualized in animations. In this article, the authors analyse the metaphors in 30 short medical animation films. Their purpose is twofold: (1) to assess whether these animations feature the same metaphors as those prevailing in the verbal texts analysed in earlier research; and (2) to show how animation provides medium-specific ways to present metaphors related to ‘dealing with cancer’. They end the article with reflections on challenges with respect to the identification and categorization of metaphors in animated films to help future researchers, and with some cautious recommendations for possible practical uses of understanding cancer metaphors in animations.

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Breath and the Body of the Voice in Cinema

Cited by 3 publications

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Breath: image and sound, an introduction

Breath: image and sound, an introduction

Introduction: Reading Breath in Literature

Facing cancer: metaphors in medical animation films

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