Film Text Analysis

This book examines film as a multimodal text and an audiovisual synthesis, bringing together current work within the fields of narratology, philosophy, multimodal analysis, sound as well as cultural studies in order to cover a wide range of international academic interest.

Autorentext

Janina Wildfeuer is a Researcher in Multimodal Linguistics in the Linguistics Department of the University of Bremen, Germany, specializing in multimodal linguistics and media studies. Her recent publications include a monograph on Film Discourse Interpretation from 2014 as well as an edited collection of papers building bridges for multimodal research (2015).

John A. Bateman is a Full Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English and Linguistics Departments of the University of Bremen, Germany, specializing in functional, computational and multimodal linguistics. His recent publications include monographs on Multimodal Film Analysis (2012) as well as on the Text and Image divide (2014).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Bringing Together New Perspectives of Film Text Analysis
   John A. Bateman and Janina Wildfeuer

2. Towards a Semiotics of Film Lighting
   Theo van Leeuwen and Morten Boeriis

3. Editing Space as an Audio-Visual Composition
   Martine Huvenne

4. Movie Physics or Dynamic Patterns as the Skeleton of Movies
   Wolfgang Wildgen

5. From Visual Narrative Grammar to Filmic Narrative Grammar: The Narrative Structure of Static and Moving Images

Neil Cohn

6. From Text to Recipient: Pragmatic Insights for Filmic Meaning Construction

Janina Wildfeuer

7. Intermediality in Film: A Blending-Based Perspective
   John A. Bateman

8. Eat, Pray, Love: Expanding Adaptations and Global Tourism
   Joyce Goggin

9. Conclusion: Film Text Analysis A New Beginning?
   Janina Wildfeuer and John A. Bateman