Multimodal film analysis how films mean / John A. Bateman and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt.

Author/creator Bateman, John A.
Other author Schmidt, Karl-Heinrich.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge,
Descriptionviii, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesRoutledge studies in multimodality ; 5
Routledge studies in multimodality ; 5. ^A1171406
Contents Analysing film. Distinguishing the filmic contribution to meaning -- Examples of filmic "textual organisation" -- Redrawing boundaries -- Organisation of the book -- Semiotics and documents. Semiotics and its relations to film -- The nature of discourse semantics -- The film as cinematographic document -- A combined view: filmic documents for filmic discourse -- Constructing the semiotic mode of film. Semiotic multimodality -- The internal organisation of semiotic strata -- Composing and combining semiotic modes -- Materiality and "epistemological commitment" -- Christian Metz and the grande syntagmatique of the image track. The original model -- Two examples of analysis with the grande syntagmatique -- Revisions and rebuttals -- Foundations for analysis: filmic units. The basic units of film: preliminaries -- Audiovisual iconic representations -- Perception, perceptual realism and reliable measurement -- Multiplicity: from perception to discourse -- Filmic units revisited: discourse-motivated definitions -- The paradigmatic organisation of film. Beyond Metz: towards a grande paradigmatique -- Capturing discourse dependency structures in film -- The paradigmatic dimensions of projection, taxis and plane -- Two examples of paradigmatic analysis -- Summary and conclusions.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2011033715
ISBN9780415883511 (alk. paper)
ISBN0415883512 (alk. paper)