Cohesion in Film

Tracking Film Elements
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-29033-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 3452 g

This book presents a new approach to film analysis. It provides methods for analysing meaning making in film through tracking concrete details of film images such as characters, objects, settings and character action. It also represents new ground for investigating empirical issues in film.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tseng, C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Dokumentarfilme
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Application of Functional Linguistics to Film 3. Cohesion in Film 4. Analysing Action Patterns in Film 5. Conclusion Filmography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chiao-I Tseng is Associate Researcher at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Science, University of Bremen, Germany. She has been applying mechanisms of discourse interpretation to multimodal text for several years and is currently involved in several research projects on application of text-linguistic methods to film analysis.