Multimodal Film Analysis: How Films Mean - Brossura

Bateman, John; Schmidt, Karl-Heinrich

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ISBN 10: 0415754437 ISBN 13: 9780415754439

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2014

Riassunto

This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an established body of work in film theory, the authors show how a close incorporation of the current state of the art in multimodal theory―including accounts of the syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes of organisation, discourse semantics and advanced ‘layout structure’―builds a methodology by which concrete details of film sequences drive mechanisms for constructing filmic discourse structures. The book introduces the necessary background, the open questions raised, and the method by which analysis can proceed step-by-step. Extensive examples are given from a broad range of films.

With this new analytic tool set, the reader will approach the study of film organisation with new levels of detail and probe more deeply into the fundamental question of the discipline: just how is it that films reliably communicate meaning?

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Informazioni sull?autore

John Bateman is professor of Applied Linguistics in the English and Linguistics Departments of the University of Bremen, specializing in functional, computational and multimodal linguistics.

Karl-Heinrich Schmidt is professor of Electronic Media at the Bergische University of Wuppertal.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415754437
• ISBN 13: 9780415754439
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 338
• Redattore: O'Halloran Kay
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania