Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning / Edition 1

by Janina Wildfeuer, John A. Bateman

Overview

This book examines film as a multimodal text and an audiovisual synthesis, bringing together current work within the fields of narratology, philosophy, multimodal analysis, sound as well as cultural studies in order to cover a wide range of international academic interest. The book provides new insights into current work and turns the discussion towards recent research questions and analyses, representing and constituting in each contribution new work in the discipline of film text analysis. With the help of various example analyses, all showing the methodological applicability of the discussed issues, the collection provides novel ways of considering film as one of the most complex and at the same time broadly comprehensible texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138911383
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/14/2016
Series:	Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Janina Wildfeuer is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Science at the University of Bremen, Germany

John A. Bateman is Professor in the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Science at the University of Bremen, Germany

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Bringing Together New Perspectives of Film Text Analysis
John A. Bateman and Janina Wildfeuer

2. Towards a Semiotics of Film Lighting
Theo van Leeuwen and Morten Boeriis

3. Editing Space as an Audio-Visual Composition
Martine Huvenne

4. Movie Physics or Dynamic Patterns as the Skeleton of Movies
Wolfgang Wildgen

5. From Visual Narrative Grammar to Filmic Narrative Grammar: The Narrative Structure of Static and Moving Images

Neil Cohn

6. From Text to Recipient: Pragmatic Insights for Filmic Meaning Construction

Janina Wildfeuer

7. Intermediality in Film: A Blending-Based Perspective
John A. Bateman

8. Eat, Pray, Love: Expanding Adaptations and Global Tourism
Joyce Goggin

9. Conclusion: Film Text Analysis – A New Beginning?
Janina Wildfeuer and John A. Bateman

Editorial Reviews

"The first collection to give an overview of the field of film text analysis including a wide variety of approaches, methodological advances and in-depth analyses hinting at the possibilities of multimodality studies for film." – Florian Mundhenke, University of Leipzig, Germany

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