Title: Narrative comprehension and film
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, Motion picture plays, Motion pictures and literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Motion picture plays, history and criticism, Digital video, Vidéo numérique, Motion picture plays--history and criticism, Pn1995.3 .b73 1992, 791.43/75