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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
©1984
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2010
Language:English
Series:Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , 66
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.)
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Table of 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