Cohesion in Film [electronic resource] : Tracking Film Elements /
Tseng, C.author.
This book presents a new approach to film analysis. It provides methods for analysing meaning making in film through tracking concrete details of film images such as characters, objects, settings and character action. It also represents new ground for investigating empirical issues in film.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures, Sequences and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Tracking elements in language and in film; 1.2 From linguistic analysis to film analysis; 1.3 From film cohesion to film genre; 1.4 Scope and limitation of the present study; 1.5 Plan of the book; 2 The Application of Functional Linguistics to Film; 2.1 The notion of strata; 2.2 Semiotic systems are socially constructed; 2.3 Semiotic systems evolve to fulfill functions; 2.4 Text coherence and genre; 2.5 Function in the SFL and the Bordwellian approaches
2.6 Meaning potential, paradigmatic system and instantiation2.7 Analysing cohesive reference - identification in discourse; 2.7.1 Types of phora in language; 2.7.2 System and structure of identification in language; 2.8 A comparative model of film genre; 3 Cohesion in Film; 3.1 Cross-modal cohesion in film; 3.2 Presenting identities of characters, objects and settings; 3.2.1 From generic to specific participants; 3.2.2 Presenting perceptually salient participants; 3.3 Tracking identities: the presuming system; 3.3.1 Explicit reappearance of characters, objects and settings
3.3.2 Implicit reappearance3.4 Comparative system; 3.5 Directions of identity retrieval; 3.6 Instantiation of cohesion systems in the beginning of The Birds (1963); 3.7 Constructing identity chains in film; 3.8 Untying narrative complexity with cohesive chains; 3.8.1 Constructing identity chains of the beginning scenes in Memento (2000); 3.8.2 Unravelling narrative coherence through chain formation; 4 Analysing Action Patterns in Film; 4.1 Foregrounding subject matters through transitivity patterns; 4.2 Interactions of identity and action chains in language
4.3 Constructing action chains in film4.4 Interlinking filmic identity and action chains; 4.5 Uncovering thematic progressions in North by Northwest (1959) through the analysis of action patterns; 4.5.1 Analysis of the auction scene; 4.5.2 Analysis of the third confrontation; 4.6 Comparing action patterns across genres; 5 Conclusion; 5.1 Summary of motivations and findings; 5.2 Outlook; Appendix A: Filmography; Notes; Bibliography; Author index; Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
This book presents a new approach to film analysis. It provides methods for analysing meaning making in film through tracking concrete details of film images such as characters, objects, settings and character action. It also represents new ground for investigating empirical issues in film.
Motion pictures-History.
Motion pictures and television.
Communication.
Documentary films.
Cultural studies.
Film History.
Screen Studies.
Media and Communication.
Documentary.
Media Studies.
Cultural Studies.