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Film theory and contemporary Hollywood movies
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ISBN: 9780415962612 9780415962629 9780203030769 0415962625 0203030761 1135895740 1282124528 9786612124525 9781135895693 9781135895730 9781135895747 1135895694 1135895732 0415962617 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York Routledge

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Film theory no longer gets top billing or plays a starring role in film studies today, as critics proclaim that theory is dead and we are living in a post-theory moment. While theory may be out of the limelight, it remains an essential key to understanding the full complexity of cinema, one that should not be so easily discounted or discarded. In this volume, contributors explore recent popular movies through the lens of film theory, beginning with industrial-economic analysis before moving into a predominately aesthetic and interpretive framework. The Hollywood films discussed cover


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Film theory : rational reconstructions
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ISBN: 9780415590976 9780415590983 9780203143667 9781136501074 9781136501111 9781136501128 Year: 2012 Publisher: London Routledge

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The film spectator : from sign to mind
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ISBN: 9053561315 9053561706 9789053561317 Year: 1995 Publisher: Amsterdam: Amsterdam university press,


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Hollywood puzzle films
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ISBN: 9780415622455 9780415622462 9780203106044 9781136256288 9781136256233 9781136256271 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Puzzle films : complex storytelling in contemporary cinema
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ISBN: 9781405168625 9781405168618 1405168625 1405168617 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell,

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Puzzle Films examines the influence of a new storytelling epoch on contemporary world cinema. Identifying and analyzing films that reject classical storytelling techniques and instead embrace nonlinearity, time loops, and fragmented spatio-temporal reality as their narrative form, these films blur the boundaries between different levels of reality, are riddled with gaps, deception, labyrinthine structures, unreliable narrators, and overt coincidences. Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world, this edited collectioninvestigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from Memento, Old Boy, and Run Lola Run, to the Infernal Affairs trilogy and In the Mood for Love. At a time when many a film is asking more--not less--of fans and cineastes, Puzzle Films will help viewers keep pace with a form of narration that captures the anxiety and ambiguity of our time.

The cognitive semiotics of film
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ISBN: 0521780055 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The cognitive semiotics of film
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ISBN: 9780511613142 9780521780056 9780521037150 051101368X 9780511013683 0511034725 9780511034725 0521780055 1280429593 9781280429590 0511049978 9780511049972 0511613148 0521037158 1107119928 9781107119925 0511302495 9780511302497 0511155409 9780511155406 0511175213 9780511175213 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of 'cognitive film semiotics', a neglected branch of film theory that combines the insights of cognitive science with those of linguistics and semiotics, he investigates Michel Colin's cognitive semantic theory of film; Francesco Casetti and Christian Metz's theories of film enunciation; Roger Odin's cognitive-pragmatic film theory; and Michel Colin and Dominique Chateau's cognitive studies of film syntax, which are viewed within the framework of Noam Chomsky's transformational generative grammar. Presenting a survey of cognitive film semiotics, this study also re-evaluates the film semiotics of the 1960s, highlights the weaknesses of American cognitive film theory, and challenges the move toward 'post-theory' in film studies.

Directed by Steven Spielberg : poetics of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster
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ISBN: 9780826416919 9780826416926 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Continuum

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Wes Anderson’s symbolic storyworld : a Semiotic Analysis
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ISBN: 9781501377327 Year: 2021 Publisher: London ; Oxford ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic,

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Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld presents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive. Chapter by chapter, it relentlessly pulls apart each of Anderson's narratives to pursue the proposition that they all share the same deep underlying symbolic values – a common symbolic storyworld. Taking the polemical strategy of outlining and employing Claude Lévi-Strauss's distinguished (and notorious) work on myth and kinship to analyze eight of Anderson's films, Warren Buckland unearths the peculiar symbolic structure of each film, plus the circuits of exchange, tangible and intangible gift giving, and unusual kinship systems that govern the lives of Anderson's characters. He also provides an analysis of Wes Anderson's visual and aural style, identifying several distinctive traits of Anderson's mise en scène


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Narrative and narration : analyzing cinematic storytelling
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ISBN: 9780231181433 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : Wallflower

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"From mainstream blockbusters to art house cinema, narrative and narration are the driving forces that organize a film. Yet attempts to explain these forces are often mired in notoriously complex terminology and dense theory. Warren Buckland provides a clear and accessible introduction that explains how narrative and narration work using straightforward language. Narrative and Narration distills the basic components of cinematic storytelling into a set of core concepts: narrative structure, processes of narration, and narrative agents. The book opens with a discussion of the emergence of narrative and narration in early cinema and proceeds to illustrate key ideas through numerous case studies. Each chapter guides readers through different methods that they can use to analyze cinematic storytelling. Buckland also discusses how departures from traditional modes, such as feminist narratives, art cinema, and unreliable narrators, can complicate and corroborate the book's understanding of narrative and narration. Examples include mainstream films, both classic and contemporary; art house films of every stripe; and two relatively new styles of cinematic storytelling: the puzzle film and those driven by a narrative logic derived from video games. Narrative and Narration is a concise introduction that provides readers with fundamental tools to understand cinematic storytelling"--

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