Warren Buckland

Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld (eBook, PDF)

A Semiotic Analysis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501316548
• Artikelnr.: 55045356

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Section One: Theory 1. Symbolic Storyworlds 2. Film Theory, Film
Analysis Section Two: The Films 3. Unintentional Mediation: Bottle Rocket
4. Dead Relatives and Intergenerational Relationships: Rushmore 5. Imperial
Kinship: The Royal Tenenbaums 6. Conflicts of Ambivalence: Life Aquatic
With Steve Zissou 7. Fraternal Rivalry: The Darjeeling Limited and Hotel
Chevalier 8. Human versus Animal Subworld: Fantastic Mr. Fox 9. The Orphan
and the Bachelor: Moonrise Kingdom 10. Rules of Descent and Laws of
Inheritance: The Grand Budapest Hotel Section Three: Finale 11. The
Symbolic Storyworld of Wes Anderson Works Cited Index