Warren Buckland

The Cognitive Semiotics of Film

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Warren Buckland examines the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9780521780056
• ISBN-10: 0521780055
• Artikelnr.: 22730352

Autorenporträt

Warren Bucklandis 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
1. The cognitive turn in film theory
2. The body on screen and in frame: film and cognitive semantics
3. Not what is seen through the window but the window itself: reflexivity, enunciation and film
4. The institutional context: a semio-pragmatic approach to fiction and documentary film
5. All in the mind? The cognitive status of film grammar
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography of works cited
Index.