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Writing on the edge : paratexts in narrative cinema / Johannes Mahlknecht.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.C65 M34 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahlknecht, Johannes, author.
- Series:
- Film and television studies ; volume 3.
- Film and television studies ; volume 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Credit titles (Motion pictures, television, etc.).
- Titles of motion pictures.
- Openings (Rhetoric).
- Motion picture producers and directors--Credits.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Actors--Credits.
- Actors.
- Screenwriters--Credits.
- Screenwriters.
- Cinematographers--Credits.
- Cinematographers.
- Film criticism.
- Advertising--Motion pictures.
- Advertising.
- Motion pictures--Marketing.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Motion pictures.
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2016]
- Summary:
- Writing on the edge analyzes texts that surround movies - so-called filmic paratexts. They include opening and closing credits, film posters, and tie-in products such as novelizations. More accessory than an actual part of the film they accompany, paratexts nevertheless serve as an essential framing device that generates expectations and guides audiences through their viewing experience. The book discusses the exchange between the extradiegetic nature of paratexts and the diegesis of the films proper - the space between the producers' attempts to advertise a product and the filmmakers' attempts to tell a story. Writing on the edge investigates cinema's manifold conventions developed to link these realms. In doing so, the book analyzes a wide range of credit sequences and promotional materials covering all periods of film history.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The studio logo
- The motto
- The title
- Cast of characters
- The end
- Claims and (legal) disclaimers
- The movie tagline
- The movie novelization
- A look back: early film and its fan magazine fictionalizations
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-179).
- Collection of texts partly published previously.
- Dissertation.
- ISBN:
- 9783825364748
- 3825364747
- OCLC:
- 947279822
- Publisher Number:
- 99976766954
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