Narrative Comprehension and Film

ISBN-13: 9780415075114 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 344 str.

Edward Branigan; E. Branigan;Branigan Edward

Opis

Narrative is one of the ways we organize and understand the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everyday conversations and in the non-fictional 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 an Unknown Woman, post-modernism and documentary in Sans Soleil. Through his exploration of film, Branigan expresses how narratology should be viewed as a distinctive strategy for recognizing, isolating and articulating the fundamental role which narrative plays in our response to the world as a whole.

Spis treści

1: Narrative Schema; 2: Story World and Screen; 3: Narration; 4: Levels of Narration; 5: Subjectivity; 6: Objectivity and Uncertainty; 7: Fiction

O autorze

Edward Branigan