Multimodal Film Analysis

How Films Mean
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-88351-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 589 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

1. Introduction: Analyzing Film 2. Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Organisation 3. The Paradigmatic Organisation of Film 4. The Syntagmatic Organisation of Film 5. Analysis: Combining Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Accounts in the Empirical Analysis of Film 6. The Syntagmatic Organisation of Film (II): Descriptive Syntagma 7. The Paradigmatic Organisation of Film (II): Relations within the shot 8. Filmic Analysis Within and Around the Shot 9. Conclusion

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.