Multimodal film analysis
Subtitle: how films mean
By: John A. Bateman and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt
Contributors: Schmidt, Karl-Heinrich
Series: Routledge studies in multimodality -- 5; Routledge studies in multimodality -- 5.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780415883511
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy; Semiotics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Analysing film. Distinguishing the filmic contribution to meaning; title: Examples of filmic "textual organisation"; title: Redrawing boundaries; title: Organisation of the book; title: Semiotics and documents. Semiotics and its relations to film; title: The nature of discourse semantics; title: The film as cinematographic document; title: A combined view: filmic documents for filmic discourse; title: Constructing the semiotic mode of film. Semiotic multimodality; title: The internal organisation of semiotic strata; title: Composing and combining semiotic modes; title: Materiality and "epistemological commitment"; title: Christian Metz and the grande syntagmatique of the image track. The original model; title: Two examples of analysis with the grande syntagmatique; title: Revisions and rebuttals; title: Foundations for analysis: filmic units. The basic units of film: preliminaries; title: Audiovisual iconic representations; title: Perception, perceptual realism and reliable measurement; title: Multiplicity: from perception to discourse; title: Filmic units revisited: discourse-motivated definitions; title: The paradigmatic organisation of film. Beyond Metz: towards a grande paradigmatique; title: Capturing discourse dependency structures in film; title: The paradigmatic dimensions of projection, taxis and plane; title: Two examples of paradigmatic analysis; title: Summary and conclusions.