ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an approach that aims at analyzing embodied gestalts of rich narrative meanings in movies and television series in terms of audiovisual metaphors. By distinguishing audiovisual key metaphors and sub-metaphors, the global network of metaphors within an artwork will be considered. By showing the citizens of Twin Peaks as dwellers of a natural and isolated area, including a ghostwood, marks a general narrative concept of the series: the social order and the supernatural forces are interrelated by nature, which acts as a metaphoric gateway between these two areas. For the two complex and abstract domains society and supernatural power, the rural nature and especially the forest offer significant source domains: the trees of the woods and the birds as its inhabitants and other natural forces like the waterfall. The bigger challenge is to identify a salient target domain in the polysemantic structure of an audiovisual artwork.
