| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Sightlines |
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Sightlines (London, England)
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| Contents |
1. Narrative Schema. Psychological use value. Logical transformations in narrative. Pragmatic forms in narrative. Cognitive schemas and other ways of associating data. A proposal for a narrative schema. The Girl and Her Trust. Causality and schema -- 2. Story World and Screen. A preliminary delineation of narrative in film. Top-down perception. Temporal and spatial order. Causality and metaphor. Impossible story space. Screen space and stylistic metaphors -- 3. Narration. Knowing how. Disparities of knowledge. Hierarchies of knowledge. Nick Fury as an example. Forgetting and revising -- 4. Levels of Narration. Eight levels. An implied author and a chameleon text. Focalization. Communication. Text under a description |
| Summary |
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 everyday 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-306) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures and literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Motion picture plays -- History and criticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Guides & Reviews.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Motion picture plays
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Motion pictures and literature
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Films.
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Verteltheorie.
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Filmkunst.
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Receptie.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
91025883 |
| ISBN |
9781136129247 |
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1136129243 |
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1299698697 |
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9781299698697 |
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9781315003108 |
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1315003104 |
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1136129324 |
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9781136129322 |
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