Multimodal film analysis : how films mean / John A. Bateman and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bateman, John A.

Contributor:

Schmidt, Karl-Heinrich.

Series:

Routledge studies in multimodality ; 5.

Routledge studies in multimodality ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Semiotics.

Physical Description:

viii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Contents:

Analysing film. Distinguishing the filmic contribution to meaning

Examples of filmic "textual organisation"

Redrawing boundaries

Organisation of the book

Semiotics and documents. Semiotics and its relations to film

The nature of discourse semantics

The film as cinematographic document

A combined view: filmic documents for filmic discourse

Constructing the semiotic mode of film. Semiotic multimodality

The internal organisation of semiotic strata

Composing and combining semiotic modes

Materiality and "epistemological commitment"

Christian Metz and the grande syntagmatique of the image track. The original model

Two examples of analysis with the grande syntagmatique

Revisions and rebuttals

Foundations for analysis: filmic units. The basic units of film: preliminaries

Audiovisual iconic representations

Perception, perceptual realism and reliable measurement

Multiplicity: from perception to discourse

Filmic units revisited: discourse-motivated definitions

The paradigmatic organisation of film. Beyond Metz: towards a grande paradigmatique

Capturing discourse dependency structures in film

The paradigmatic dimensions of projection, taxis and plane

Two examples of paradigmatic analysis

Summary and conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415883511

0415883512

OCLC:

641536304