Multimodal film analysis : how films mean / John A. Bateman and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bateman, John A. (Author), Schmidt, Karl-Heinrich (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Routledge studies in multimodality ; 5.
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Table of Contents:
  • Analysing film. Distinguishing the filmic contribution to meaning
  • Examples of filmic "textual organisation"
  • Redrawing boundaries
  • Organisation of the book
  • Semiotics and documents. Semiotics and its relations to film
  • The nature of discourse semantics
  • The film as cinematographic document
  • A combined view: filmic documents for filmic discourse
  • Constructing the semiotic mode of film. Semiotic multimodality
  • The internal organisation of semiotic strata
  • Composing and combining semiotic modes
  • Materiality and "epistemological commitment"
  • Christian Metz and the grande syntagmatique of the image track. The original model
  • Two examples of analysis with the grande syntagmatique
  • Revisions and rebuttals
  • Foundations for analysis: filmic units. The basic units of film: preliminaries
  • Audiovisual iconic representations
  • Perception, perceptual realism and reliable measurement
  • Multiplicity: from perception to discourse
  • Filmic units revisited: discourse-motivated definitions
  • The paradigmatic organisation of film. Beyond Metz: towards a grande paradigmatique
  • Capturing discourse dependency structures in film
  • The paradigmatic dimensions of projection, taxis and plane
  • Two examples of paradigmatic analysis
  • Summary and conclusions.
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