Narrative Comprehension and Film / Edition 1

by Edward Branigan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415075121
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/03/1992
Series:	Sightlines
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1: Narrative Schema; 2: Story World and Screen; 3: Narration; 4: Levels of Narration; 5: Subjectivity; 6: Objectivity and Uncertainty; 7: Fiction