Narrative comprehension and film
By: Edward Branigan.
Series: Sightlines; Sightlines (London, England)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Motion pictures and literature.; Narration (Rhetoric); Motion picture plays -- History and criticism.
Description: 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 everyday 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-306) and index.