Narrative Comprehension and Film

By Edward Branigan

Book Overview

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 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 and Unknown Woman, post-modernism and documentary in Sans Soleil.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415075122
• ISBN13: 9780415075121
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"