1st Edition

Narrative Comprehension and Film

By Edward Branigan Copyright 1992
    342 Pages
    by Routledge

    342 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    1: Narrative Schema; 2: Story World and Screen; 3: Narration; 4: Levels of Narration; 5: Subjectivity; 6: Objectivity and Uncertainty; 7: Fiction

    Biography

    Edward Branigan