Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld - A Semiotic Analysis

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 Levi-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 scene.>

About the author

Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Among the books he has authored are: Studying Contemporary American Film (with Thomas Elsaesser); the best-selling Teach Yourself Film Studies; The Cognitive Semiotics of Film; and The Film Spectator. He also edits the journal The New Review of Film and Television Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Warren (Oxford Brookes University Buckland, Warren Buckland, Warren (Oxford Brookes University Buckland
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781501316524
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-1652-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film: styles & genres, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Theory & Criticism, Film: styles and genres, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Film history, theory or criticism