TY - BOOK ID - 380352 TI - Multimodal film analysis : how films mean AU - Bateman, John A. AU - Schmidt, Karl-Heinrich PY - 2012 SN - 9780415883511 0415883512 0415754437 1136467556 0203128222 1136467548 9780203128220 9781136467554 9780415754439 PB - New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Film KW - Semiotics KW - Motion pictures KW - Philosophy. KW - Semiotics. KW - Théorie du cinéma. KW - Analyse filmique. KW - Sémiotique et cinéma. KW - Théorie du cinéma KW - Analyse filmique KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:380352 AB - 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 filmic discourse structures. The book introduces the necessary background, the open questions raised, and the method by which analysis can proceed step-by-step. Extensive examples are given from a broad range of films. With this new analytic tool set, the reader will approach the study of film organisation with new levels of detail and probe more deeply into the fundamental question of the discipline: just how is it that films reliably communicate meaning? ER -