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Point of View in the Cinema : A Theory of Narration and Subjectivity in Classical Film / Edward Branigan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; 66Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©1984Edition: Reprint 2010Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027930798
  • 9783110817591
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4301
LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .B717 1984
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Chapter 1 The Problem of Point of View -- Chapter 2 Film as System -- Chapter 3 Narration -- Chapter 4 Subjectivity -- Chapter 5 The Point-of-view Shot -- Chapter 6 Character Reflection and Projection -- Chapter 7 The Modern Text: Subjectivity under Siege from Fellini's 8 1/2 to Oshima's The Story of a Man Who Left His Will on Film -- Chapter 8 Metatheory -- Appendix Orthodox Theories of Narration -- Suggested Further Reading -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: Branigan effectively criticizes the communication model of narration, a task long overdue in Anglo-American circles. The book brings out the extent to which mainstream mimetic theories have relied upon the elastic notion of an invisible, idealized observer, a convenient spook whom critics can summon up whenever they desire to "naturalize" style. The book also makes distinctions among types of subjectivity; after this, we will have much more precise ways of tracing the fluctuations among a character's vision, dreams, wishes, and so forth. Branigan also explains the necessity of distinguishing levels of narration.
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Frontmatter -- Chapter 1 The Problem of Point of View -- Chapter 2 Film as System -- Chapter 3 Narration -- Chapter 4 Subjectivity -- Chapter 5 The Point-of-view Shot -- Chapter 6 Character Reflection and Projection -- Chapter 7 The Modern Text: Subjectivity under Siege from Fellini's 8 1/2 to Oshima's The Story of a Man Who Left His Will on Film -- Chapter 8 Metatheory -- Appendix Orthodox Theories of Narration -- Suggested Further Reading -- Index -- Backmatter

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Branigan effectively criticizes the communication model of narration, a task long overdue in Anglo-American circles. The book brings out the extent to which mainstream mimetic theories have relied upon the elastic notion of an invisible, idealized observer, a convenient spook whom critics can summon up whenever they desire to "naturalize" style. The book also makes distinctions among types of subjectivity; after this, we will have much more precise ways of tracing the fluctuations among a character's vision, dreams, wishes, and so forth. Branigan also explains the necessity of distinguishing levels of narration.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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