Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Conventions -- Introduction -- Part I: Setting the Stage for Cinematic Metaphor -- Introduction -- 1 Cinematic Metaphor as Poiesis: The Movement-Image as Starting Point -- 2 Cinematic Metaphor and Experience: Creating Fragile Realities -- 3 'Doing' Cinematic Metaphors: Perception, Feeling, and Affective Entanglement -- 4 Cinematic Metaphor and Embodiment -- 5 Cinematic Metaphor as Commonly Shared Reality -- Part II: Cinematic Experience and Audiovisual Figurativity -- Introduction -- 6 Experiencing Metaphoricity -- 7 Audiovisual Figurativity Emerging from Cinematic Experience -- Part III: Cinematic Expressive Movement: Affectivity and Metaphor -- Introduction -- 8 Cinematic Expressive Movement and the Poetics of Affect: Three Examples -- 9 Movement-Image: From Body Movement to Cinematic Expressivity -- 10 The Affective Dimension: Expressive Movements and Cinematic Metaphor -- Part IV: Temporality of Cinematic Metaphor: Intertwined Dynamics on Micro and Macro Levels -- Introduction -- 11 Emerging Metaphorical Scenarios -- 12 Intertwining Metaphorical Themes in a TV News Feature: REPORT MAINZ -- 13 Unfolding Metaphoric Themes in a Feature Film: SPELLBOUND -- Beyond Cinematic Metaphor -- Appendix: Cinematic Metaphor - A Methodological Outline -- Bibliography -- Audiovisual Sources -- List of Figures -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- About the Authors