Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld: A Semiotic Analysis

by Warren Buckland

Book Overview

Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworldpresents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive. Chapter by chapter, it relentlessly pulls apart each of Anderson's narratives to pursue the proposition that they all share the same deep underlying symbolic values - a common symbolic storyworld. Taking the polemical strategy of outlining and employing Claude L vi-Strauss's distinguished (and notorious) work on myth and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501377329
• ISBN13: 9781501377327
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"