Multimodal Film Analysis: How Films Mean

ISBN-13: 9780415754439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 330 str.

John Bateman;Karl-Heinrich Schmidt

Opis

In this study, the authors provide a methodologically sound and detailed account of how to analyse films within a framework based on the current state of the art in multimodal research.

Recenzje

"By developing a framework for multimodal film analysis, Bateman and Schmidt bridge the gap between accounts that analyse film shot by shot and those accounts who primarily focus on larger units such as scenes. One of the fundamental advances of their socio-semiotic model is that it includes details on lower levels of abstraction as well as highly abstract concepts like filmic genre… As far as I am aware, the concept they develop is unmatched in contemporary film theory and shows how fundamental semiotic concepts still are."—Thomas Metten in Multimodal Communication

Spis treści

Selected Contents: 1. Analyzing film  2. Semiotics and documents  3. Constructing the semiotic mode of film  4. Christian Metz and the grande syntagmatique of the image track  5. Foundations for analysis: filmic units  6. The paradigmatic organization of film  7. The syntagmatic organization of film  8. Combining syntagmatic and paradigmatic analysis: a detailed example  9. Conclusions and outlook

O autorze

John Bateman is professor of Applied Linguistics in the English and Linguistics Departments of the University of Bremen, specializing in functional, computational and multimodal linguistics.

Karl-Heinrich Schmidt is professor of Electronic Media at the Bergische University of Wuppertal.