Narrative comprehension and film / Edward Branigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Branigan, Edward, 1945-

Contributor:

Safari, an O'Reilly Media Company.

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:

xv, 325 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understnad the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everday conversations and in the nonfictional discourses of journalists, historians, educators, psychologists, attorneys and many others. Edward Branigan presents a telling exploration of the basic concepts of narrative theory and its relation to film - and literary - analysis, bringing together theories from linguistics and cognitive science, and applying them to the screen. Individual analyses of classical narratives form the basis of a complex study of every aspect of filmic fiction exploring, for example, subjectivity in Lady in the Lake, multiplicity in Letter from and Unknown Woman, post-modernism and documentary in Sans Soleil.

Contents:

1. Narrative schema

2. Story world and screen

3. Narration

4. Levels of narration

5. Subjectivity

6. Objectivity and uncertainty

7. Fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-136-12932-4

1-315-00310-4

0-415-07511-4

1-136-12924-3

9781315003108

OCLC:

852159313