title: I've got you under my skin: narratives of the inner body in cinema and television.
abstract: 1966 Twentieth Century Fox big-budget film Fantastic Voyage represents a corner stone around which a whole audiovisual trope was built. The topic of the voyage of shrunken people sent to explore the inner space of the body was adopted since then by many feature films, television series and animated TV series, for the aims of education, entertainment or edutainment. While the exploration of the body (and, often, the meeting with its inhabitants) gives space to just a few possibilities of plot development, it leaves open ground for metaphors. Starting from the hypotext, this article analyzes a sample of audiovisuals to try to summarize a taxonomy of narrative schemes and the different metaphors (and their uses) that our body can host.
authors.affiliation: International Research Doctorate in Audiovisual Studies, University of Udine, Italy. alberto.brodesco@soc.unitn.it
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brodesco
mesh_terms: D049628:Body Size; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D019365:Metaphor; D009040:Motion Pictures / Q000266:history*; D013690:Television / Q000266:history*