Multimodal Film Analysis: How Films Mean

by John Bateman and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt

Book Overview

This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an established body of work in film theory, the authors show how a close incorporation of the current state of the art in multimodal theory--including accounts of the syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes of organisation, discourse semantics and advanced 'layout structure'--builds a methodology by which concrete details of film sequences drive mechanisms for constructing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415754437
• ISBN13: 9780415754439
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"