ABSTRACT

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. The book provides new insights into current work and turns the discussion towards recent research questions and analyses, representing and constituting in each contribution new work in the discipline of film text analysis. With the help of various example analyses, all showing the methodological applicability of the discussed issues, the collection provides novel ways of considering film as one of the most complex and at the same time broadly comprehensible texts.

chapter |23 pages

Introduction

Bringing Together New Perspectives of Film Text Analysis

chapter |24 pages

From Visual Narrative Grammar to Filmic Narrative Grammar

The Narrative Structure of Static and Moving Images

chapter |23 pages

From Text to Recipient

Pragmatic Insights for Filmic Meaning Construction

chapter |28 pages

Intermediality in Film

A Blending-Based Perspective

chapter |18 pages

Eat, Pray, Love

Expanding Adaptations and Global Tourism

chapter |12 pages

Conclusion

Film Text Analysis – A New Beginning?