Narrative comprehension and film / Edward Branigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Branigan, Edward, 1945-

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Sightlines (London, England)

Sightlines

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Motion picture plays--History and criticism.

Motion picture plays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

viewed as a distinctive strategy for recognizing, isolating, and articulating the fundamental role which narrative plays in our response to the world as a whole.

Contents:

1. Narrative Schema. Psychological use value. Logical transformations in narrative. Pragmatic forms in narrative. Cognitive schemas and other ways of associating data. A proposal for a narrative schema. The Girl and Her Trust. Causality and schema

2. Story World and Screen. A preliminary delineation of narrative in film. Top-down perception. Temporal and spatial order. Causality and metaphor. Impossible story space. Screen space and stylistic metaphors

3. Narration. Knowing how. Disparities of knowledge. Hierarchies of knowledge. Nick Fury as an example. Forgetting and revising

4. Levels of Narration. Eight levels. An implied author and a chameleon text. Focalization. Communication. Text under a description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-306) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781136129247

1136129243

Publisher Number:

99981026792

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.