Iconological analysis model: Applied motion to the film story

Abstract

This article introduces an analytical model that acts as a tool to assist the analyst or student of cinema in the task of deconstructing the cinematographical récit (story), thereby facilitating the creation of an inventory and a linguistic description of the numerous themes that converge in a film. It is structured around a double theory framework: The ability of the audiovisual image to tell stories is taken from Jesús García Jímenez’s Audiovisual Narrative, and I have also applied Erwin Panofsky’s Iconological Analysis in order to explain and integrate the signifying elements in a cinematographical récit. These elements are understood as symptoms of something quite distinct, and are integrated in the Pre-Iconography, Iconography and Iconology triad.