Narrative Comprehension and Film

by Edward Branigan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136129322
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/17/2013
Series:	Sightlines
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	52 MB
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About the Author

Edward Branigan

Table of Contents

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