Point of View in the Cinema: A Theory of Narration and Subjectivity in Classical Film / Edition 1

by Edward Branigan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789027930798
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	12/01/1984
Series:	Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , #66
Edition description:	Reprint 2010
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.03(d)
Age Range:	18 Years