Title Sequences as Paratexts: Narrative Anticipation and Recapitulation

ISBN-13: 9780367892371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 162 str.

Michael Betancourt

Opis

In his third book on the semiotics of title sequences, Title Sequences as Paratexts, theorist Michael Betancourt offers an analysis of the relationship between the title sequence and its primary text—the narrative whose production the titles credit. Using a wealth of examples drawn from across film history—ranging from White Zombie

Spis treści

List of Figures Acknowledgements 1 INTRODUCTION

Limina Anticipation and Recapitulation Problems of Cinematic Paratext

2 Narrative Exposition

Pseudo-Independence Intratextuality

3 Expositional Modes

The Allegory mode Lexical Expertise

4 The Comment mode

Narrative Futurity Intertextuality and Quotation

5 The Summary mode

Complex Summary Narrative Restatement

6 The Prologue mode

Realist Integration Expository Texts

7 CONCLUSIONS

The Paradoxes of Cinematic Paratext Typography and Pseudo-Independence The Ideology of Naturalism::Stylization

Index

O autorze

Michael Betancourt is an artist/theorist concerned with digital technology and capitalist ideology. His writing has been translated into Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and been published in magazines such as The Atlantic, Make Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, Leonardo, Semiotica, and CTheory. He wrote The ____________ Manifesto, and other books such as The Critique of Digital Capitalism, The History of Motion Graphics, Semiotics and Title Sequences, Synchronization and Title Sequences, Glitch Art in Theory and Practice, and Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing. These publications complement his movies, which have screened internationally at the Black Maria Film Festival, Art Basel Miami Beach, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Athens Video Art Festival, Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, the San Francisco Cinematheque’s Crossroads, and Experiments in Cinema, among many others.