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Abstract
This study offers a multimodal cognitive analysis of selected
scenes in five Academy Award-winning films. These scenes are
extracts and screenshots from Spotlight (2015), Interstellar (2014),
Midnight in Paris (2011), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004),
and The Matrix (1999). The study is primarily situated within
Cognitive Poetics through the application of Text World Theory
(Werth 1999 and Gavins 2007) but aspired at extending its span
by incorporating Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Kress and van
Leeuwen 2006). Therefore, the study has central aims in terms of
analyzing the selected scenes; the aims are founded on offering
verbal analysis based on discourse, text, modal-worlds as well as
visual analysis based on MMDA’s three structures. Based on the
in-depth examination of the selected scenes, the study aims at
offering original, significant insights to the films’ understanding.
Using TWT, the study’s purpose is to explicate the many layers of
meaning that work together in harmony in films. Through utilizing
TWT, the study offers both macro and micro analyses of the
selected films. The study also carries a threefold vis al analysis
using MMDA. The study concludes that despite the difference
between real life and films in terms of reality, they both conform
to the same fundamental multimodal and cognitive means of
interaction to deliver meaning.
Keywords: Text World Theory, Multimodal Discourse Analysis,
Film analysis, Cognitive Poetics, Semiotics.