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...
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 conversat...
Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understnad the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everday conversations and in the nonfictional 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...
Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understnad the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everday conversati...
In Projecting a Camera, film theorist Edward Branigan offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding film theory. Why, for example, does a camera move? What does a camera "know"? (And when does it know it?) What is the camera's relation to the subject during long static shots? What happens when the screen is blank? Through a wide-ranging engagement with Wittgenstein and theorists of film, he offers one of the most fully developed understandings of the ways in which the camera operates in film. With its thorough grounding in the philosophy of spectatorship and narrative,...
In Projecting a Camera, film theorist Edward Branigan offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding film theory. Why, for example, does ...
From a highly regarded film theorist, Projecting a Camera asks how we understand the work of this cinematic apparatus, and what our assumptions may be about the relation of the camera, to the story, to the viewer. Through a wide-ranging engagement with the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and classical and contemporary theorists of film, the book radically re-assesses a century of film theory and the language and ways through which our conceptions of film have been made. Edward Branigan explores a new and original way of conceiving film as a language by comparing film theorists' conceptions of the...
From a highly regarded film theorist, Projecting a Camera asks how we understand the work of this cinematic apparatus, and what our assumptions may be...
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...
Branigan effectively criticizes the communication model of narration, a task long overdue in Anglo-American circles. The book brings out the extent to...
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory is an international reference work representing the essential ideas and concepts at the centre of film theory from the beginning of the twentieth century, to the beginning of the twenty-first.
When first encountering film theory, students are often confronted with a dense, interlocking set of texts full of arcane terminology, inexact formulations, sliding definitions, and abstract generalities. "The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory" challenges these first impressions by aiming to make film theory accessible and open to new readers....
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory is an international reference work representing the essential ideas and concepts at the centre of film th...
