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Branigan, Edward. Narrative Comprehension and Film. London, New York: Routledge, 1992. Added by: joachim (10/14/12, 3:01 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 0-415-07511-4 BibTeX citation key: Branigan1992 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Nick Fury", Film, Narratology, Superhero, USA Creators: Branigan Publisher: Routledge (London, New York) |
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Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understand 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 an Unknown Woman, post-modernism and documentary in Sans Soleil. Table of Contents List of figures (ix) Preface (xi) 1 NARRATIVE SCHEMA (1) Psychological use value (1) Logical transformations in narrative (4) Pragmatic forms in narrative (8) Cognitive schemas and other ways of associating data (13) A proposal for a narrative schema (17) The Girl and Her Trust (20) Causality and schema (26) 2 STORY WORLD AND SCREEN (33) A preliminary delineation of narrative in film (33) Top-down perception (37) Temporal and spatial order (39) Causality and metaphor (44) Impossible story space (50) Screen space and stylistic metaphors (56) 3 NARRATION (63) Knowing how (63) Disparities of knowledge (66) Hierarchies of knowledge (72) Nick Fury as an example (76) Forgetting and revising (83) 4 LEVELS OF NARRATION (86) Eight levels (86) An implied author and a chameleon text (92) Focalization (100) Communication (107) Text under a description (111) A comprehensive description of narrative (114) Five types of narrative theory (118) 5 SUBJECTIVITY (125) Levels in Hangover Square (125) Separation of material and structure (140) What makes film subjective? A case study of Lady in the Lake (142) A synthesis: telling/showing/summary/scene (146) Subjectivity in narrative theories (150) How many cameras are in a film? (157) 6 OBJECTIVITY AND UNCERTAINTY (161) From subjectivity to intersubjectivity (161) The historical present of invisible observation (164) Simultaneous time schemes (168) Flashback (173) Multiplicity in Letter from an Unknown Woman (177) 7 FICTION (192) Fiction as partially determined reference (192) Psychologically real theories of fiction (196) Fictional pictures (198) Nonfictional pictures (202) Post-modernism and documentary in Sans Soleil (207) A brief conclusion (216) Notes (218) Works cited (288) Index (307) Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |