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Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworldpresents 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 k...

This book offers a solution to one of film history¿s major controversies: the long-running dispute over Orson Welles¿ and Herman J. Mankiewicz¿s contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay. It establishes the vital importance of computing and statistics to solving previously intractable puzzles in the arts and humanities. Citizen Kane (1941) is one of the most acclaimed films in the history of cinema. For 50 years it topped the Sight & Soun...

Warren Buckland provides a clear and accessible introduction that explains how narrative and narration work using straightforward language. He distills the basic components of cinematic storytelling into a set of core concepts.

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The Film Spectator: From Sign to Mind brings together for the first time in English the work of European film scholars whose aim is, in Christian Metz's famous phrase, 'to understand how film is understood'. The authors represented in this collection approach this aim through a unique combination of cognitive science, pragmatics, and semiotics. The Film Spectator raises once again the most fundamental issues that have confronted film theory ov...

From 1968 to 1991 the acclaimed film theorist Christian Metz wrote several remarkable books on film theory: Essais sur la signification au cinema, tome 1 et 2, Langage et cinéma, Le signifiant imaginaire, and L'Enonciation impersonnelle. These books set the agenda of academic film studies during its formative period. Metz's ideas were taken up, digested, refined, reinterpreted, criticized, and sometimes dismissed, but rarely ignored.This volum...

In this volume, contributors explore recent popular movies through the lens of film theory, beginning with industrial-economic analysis before moving into a predominately aesthetic and interpretive framework. The Hollywood films discussed cover a wide range from 300 to Fifty First Dates, from Brokeback Mountain to Lord of the Rings, from Spider-Man 3 to Fahrenheit 9/11, from Saw to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and much more. Individual essays cons...

In Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions, Warren Buckland asks a series of questions about how film theory gets written in the first place.

From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques¿like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators¿more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in Hollywood Puzzle Films examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood ...

From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques-like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators-more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in Hollywood Puzzle Films examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood ...

Film Studies: An Introduction is a straightforward guide for anyone who wants to analyze, understand and evaluate films.It provides an overview of the key areas in film studies, including aesthetics, narrative, genre, documentary and the secrets of film reviewing. You will learn to appreciate the special qualities of a film, acquire a broad knowledge of the inner workings of film, and be sensitive to the unique meaning of each camera movement ...

In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of ‘, cognitive film semiotics’, , a neglected branch of film theory that combines the insights of cognitive science with those of linguistics and semiotics, he investigates Michel Colin’, s cognitive semantic theory of film, Francesco Casetti a...

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

Questa opera di analisi e di confronto pone sul tavolo anatomico dell'entomologo cinematografico, più che del critico, una serie di film differenti per natura, target e finalità che, magicamente, si dispiegano davanti agli occhi del lettore trovando una loro verità, si presume indipendente dalle volontà originarie dei loro autori, e diventando altro, ovvero il riflesso artistico e industriale, in una parola mediatico, di un'intera società e di...

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Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world, "Puzzle Films" investigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from "Memento, " "Old Boy, " and "Run Lola Run, " to the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy and "In the Mood for Love."Unites American 'independent' cinema, the European and International Art film, and certain modes of avant-garde filmmaking on the basis of their shared storytelling complexityDraws upon the ...

Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world, "Puzzle Films" investigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from "Memento, " "Old Boy, " and "Run Lola Run, " to the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy and "In the Mood for Love."Unites American 'independent' cinema, the European and International Art film, and certain modes of avant-garde filmmaking on the basis of their shared storytelling complexityDraws upon the ...

The hugely successful and ambitious volume Film Theory Goes to the Movies (Routledge, 1993) redefined and transformed the discipline of film studies. It broadened and refocused the theoretical analysis of film (up to that point limited to classical Hollywood, European art cinema, and the avant-garde) to include contemporary popular films from the US. This "sequel" wants to demonstrate that film theory continues to be relevant to the critical e...