On the Embodiment of Binary Oppositions in Cinema: The Containment Schema in John Ford's Westerns KU Leuven
This paper analyses how abstract binary oppositions such as civilisation vs. wilderness or the community vs. the individual are communicated visually in some of John Ford’s Westerns. Borrowing insights from image schema research, we claim that these abstract concepts and themes are given form in individual films by way of the metaphorical expansion of spatial schemas, and in particular through the containment schema. This schema, which will be ...