Screening: Jessica Jones (NETFLIX)
What is a metaphor?
- an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things.
- Shakespeare's "all the world's a stage"
- a creative means to stimulate audience by getting them to think in new ways
Allegory - an extended or complex metaphor, or connected series of metaphors.
An allegory usually has two meanings: literal and symbolic (or metaphorical)
Alien is regarded as a feminist / Freudian allegory, using visual sexual metaphors.
Allusion - an indirect or passing reference, usually with no metaphorical intent
Often used as a homage or nod to a related show or film or writer/directors' inspirations
Analogy - a literal comparison without further meaning (a metaphor uses analogy with greater meaning)
- Forrest Gump's "Life is like a box of chocolate's"
Metaphor in TV and Film
- while writers may use verbal or literary metaphors, most metaphors in film and TV will be visual
- metaphors generally need to be constructed of familiar visual symbols and references and cannot be overly complex
- like a verbal metaphor, they will break down if there are too many analogies to process at once. But there needs to be enough detail that the metaphor is recognisable and easily understood.
Jessica Jones
- dominant narrative theme is power and control
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