Narrative Comprehension and Film

Narrative Comprehension and Film
Author: Edward Branigan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136129324

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.

Projecting a Camera

Projecting a Camera
Author: Edward Branigan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1135379599

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, Projecting aCamera takes the study of film to a new level. With the care and precision that he brought to NarrativeComprehension and Film, Edward Branigan maps the ways in which we must understand the role of the camera, the meaning of the frame, the role of the spectator, and other key components of film-viewing. By analyzing how we think, discuss, and marvel about the films we see, Projecting a Camera, offers insights rich in implications for our understanding of film and film studies.

Puzzle Films

Puzzle Films
Author: Warren Buckland
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-01-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1405168617

Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world, Puzzle Films investigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from Memento, Old Boy, and Run Lola Run, to the Infernal Affairs trilogy and In the Mood for Love. Unites American ‘independent’ cinema, the European and International Art film, and certain modes of avant-garde filmmaking on the basis of their shared storytelling complexity Draws upon the expertise of film scholars from North America, Britain, China, Poland, Holland, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, and Australia

Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games

Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games
Author: M. Mackey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-07-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 023031662X

Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension.

Narration in the Fiction Film

Narration in the Fiction Film
Author: David Bordwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2013-09-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136099166

In this study, David Bordwell offers a comprehensive account of how movies use fundamental principles of narrative representation, unique features of the film medium, and diverse story-telling patterns to construct their fictional narratives.

Tracking Color in Cinema and Art

Tracking Color in Cinema and Art
Author: Edward Branigan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1315317486

Color is one of cinema’s most alluring formal systems, building on a range of artistic traditions that orchestrate visual cues to tell stories, stage ideas, and elicit feelings. But what if color is not—or not only—a formal system, but instead a linguistic effect, emerging from the slipstream of our talk and embodiment in a world? This book develops a compelling framework from which to understand the mobility of color in art and mind, where color impressions are seen through, and even governed by, patterns of ordinary language use, schemata, memories, and narrative. Edward Branigan draws on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and other philosophers who struggle valiantly with problems of color aesthetics, contemporary theories of film and narrative, and art-historical models of analysis. Examples of a variety of media, from American pop art to contemporary European cinema, illustrate a theory based on a spectator’s present-time tracking of temporal patterns that are firmly entwined with language use and social intelligence.

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative
Author: David Herman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2007-07-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521856965

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination

The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination
Author: Anna Abraham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 865
Release: 2020-06-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1108429246

The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why did the capacity for imagination evolve and manifest with undeniably manifold complexity uniquely in human beings? This handbook reflects on such questions by collecting perspectives on imagination from leading experts. It showcases a rich and detailed analysis on how the imagination is understood across several disciplines of study, including anthropology, archaeology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and the arts. An integrated theoretical-empirical-applied picture of the field is presented, which stands to inform researchers, students, and practitioners about the issues of relevance across the board when considering the imagination. With each chapter, the nature of human imagination is examined - what it entails, how it evolved, and why it singularly defines us as a species.

Poetics of Cinema

Poetics of Cinema
Author: David Bordwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1135867801

Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning with this central thesis, Bordwell works out a full understanding of how films channel and recast cultural influences for their cinematic purposes. With more than five hundred film stills, Poetics of Cinema is a must-have for any student of cinema.

Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema

Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema
Author: A. Cameron
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2008-07-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0230594190

Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising questions of chance and destiny, memory and history, simultaneity and the representation of time.