num_pages: 288
description: Branigan effectively criticizes the communication model of narration, a task long overdue in Anglo-American circles. The book brings out the extent to which mainstream mimetic theories have relied upon the elastic notion of an invisible, idealized observer, a convenient spook whom critics can summon up whenever they desire to "naturalize" style. The book also makes distinctions among types of subjectivity; after this, we will have much more precise ways of tracing the fluctuations among a character's vision, dreams, wishes, and so forth. Branigan also explains the necessity of distinguishing levels of narration.
language: English
title: Point of View in the Cinema: A Theory of Narration and Subjectivity in Classical Film
titlecomplete: Point of View in the Cinema: A Theory of Narration and Subjectivity in Classical Film (Approaches to Semiotics [As])
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Mouton de Gruyter