Narrative comprehension and film / Edward Branigan
By: Branigan, Edward [author].
Material type: BookSeries: Sightlines (London, England): Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992Description: xv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415075122 (paperback); 0415075114 (paperback).Subject(s): Motion pictures and literature | Narration (Rhetoric) | Motion picture plays -- History and criticismDDC classification: 791.4375Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 791.4375 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 04/03/2024 | 00230984 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 every aspect of filmic fiction exploring, for example, subjectivity in Lady in the Lake, multiplicity in Letter from and Unknown Woman, post-modernism and documentary in Sans Soleil.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-306) and index.
Narrative Schema -- Psychological use value -- Logical transformations in narrative -- Pragmatic forms in narrative -- Cognitive schemas and other ways of associating data -- A proposal for a narrative schema -- The Girl and Her Trust -- Causality and schema -- Story World and Screen -- A preliminary delineation of narrative in film -- Top-down perception -- Temporal and spatial order -- Causality and metaphor -- Impossible story space -- Screen space and stylistic metaphors -- Narration -- Knowing how -- Disparities of knowledge -- Hierarchies of knowledge -- Nick Fury as an example -- Forgetting and revising -- Levels of Narration -- Eight levels -- An implied author and a chameleon text -- Focalization -- Communication -- Text under a description -- A comprehensive description of narrative -- Five types of narrative theory – Subjectivity -- Levels in Hangover Square -- Separation of material and structure -- What makes film subjective? A case study of Lady in the Lake -- A synthesis: telling/showing/summary/scene -- Subjectivity in narrative theories -- How many cameras are in a film? -- Objectivity and Uncertainty -- From subjectivity to intersubjectivity -- The historical present of invisible observation -- Simultaneous time schemes -- Flashback -- Multiplicity in Letter from an Unknown Woman – Fiction -- Fiction as partially determined reference -- Psychologically real theories of fiction -- Fictional pictures -- Nonfictional pictures -- Post-modernism and documentary in Sans Soleil -- A brief conclusion.
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 everyday 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 every aspect of filmic fiction exploring, for example, subjectivity in Lady in the Lake, multiplicity in Letter from and Unknown Woman, post-modernism and documentary in Sans Soleil.