Author Description

In This Study, The Authors Provide A Methodologically Sound And Detailed Account Of How To Analyse Films Within A Framework Based On The Current State Of The Art In Multimodal Research. Analysing Film. Distinguishing The Filmic Contribution To Meaning -- Examples Of Filmic Textual Organisation -- Redrawing Boundaries -- Organisation Of The Book -- Semiotics And Documents. Semiotics And Its Relations To Film -- The Nature Of Discourse Semantics -- The Film As Cinematographic Document -- A Combined View: Filmic Documents For Filmic Discourse -- Constructing The Semiotic Mode Of Film. Semiotic Multimodality -- The Internal Organisation Of Semiotic Strata -- Composing And Combining Semiotic Modes -- Materiality And Epistemological Commitment -- Christian Metz And The Grande Syntagmatique Of The Image Track. The Original Model -- Two Examples Of Analysis With The Grande Syntagmatique -- Revisions And Rebuttals -- Foundations For Analysis: Filmic Units. The Basic Units Of Film: Preliminaries -- Audiovisual Iconic Representations -- Perception, Perceptual Realism And Reliable Measurement -- Multiplicity: From Perception To Discourse -- Filmic Units Revisited: Discourse-motivated Definitions -- The Paradigmatic Organisation Of Film. Beyond Metz: Towards A Grande Paradigmatique -- Capturing Discourse Dependency Structures In Film -- The Paradigmatic Dimensions Of Projection, Taxis And Plane -- Two Examples Of Paradigmatic Analysis -- Summary And Conclusions. John A. Bateman And Karl-heinrich Schmidt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.