Point of View in the Cinema - A Theory of Narration and Subjectivity in Classical Film

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 up whenever they desire to "naturalize" style. The book also makes distinctions among types of subjectivity; after this, we will have much more precise ways of tracing the fluctuations among a character's vision, dreams, wishes, and so forth. Branigan also explains the necessity of distinguishing levels of narration.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Branigan
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1984
• EAN: 9789027930798
• ISBN: 978-90-279-3079-8
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 26 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 548 g
• Illustrations: 40 b/w ill.
• Series: Approaches to Semiotics; Approaches to Semiotics; Approaches to Semiotics [AS]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV