Multimodal Film Analysis

How Films Mean
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-75443-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an established body of work in film theory, the authors show how a close incorporation of the current state of the art in multimodal theory—including accounts of the syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes of organisation, discourse semantics and advanced ‘layout structure’—builds a methodology by which concrete details of film sequences drive mechanisms for constructing filmic discourse structures. The book introduces the necessary background, the open questions raised, and the method by which analysis can proceed step-by-step. Extensive examples are given from a broad range of films.

With this new analytic tool set, the reader will approach the study of film organisation with new levels of detail and probe more deeply into the fundamental question of the discipline: just how is it that films reliably communicate meaning?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bateman, John (University of Bremen, Germany)

Bateman, John

Schmidt, Karl-Heinrich (University of Wuppertal, Germany)

Schmidt, Karl-Heinrich

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Selected Contents: 1. Analyzing film 2. Semiotics and documents 3. Constructing the semiotic mode of film 4. Christian Metz and the grande syntagmatique of the image track 5. Foundations for analysis: filmic units 6. The paradigmatic organization of film 7. The syntagmatic organization of film 8. Combining syntagmatic and paradigmatic analysis: a detailed example 9. Conclusions and outlook

Über Autor(innen)

John Bateman is professor of Applied Linguistics in the English and Linguistics Departments of the University of Bremen, specializing in functional, computational and multimodal linguistics.
Karl-Heinrich Schmidt is professor of Electronic Media at the Bergische University of Wuppertal.