Point of View in the Cinema (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789027930798)

Branigan effectively criticizes the communication model of narration, a task long overdue in Anglo-American circles. The book brings out the extent to which mainstream mimetic theories have relied upon the elastic notion of an invisible, idealized observer, a convenient spook whom critics can summon up whenever they desire to "naturalize" style. The book also makes distinctions among types of subjectivity; after this, we will have much more precise ways of tracing the fluctuations among a character's vision, dreams, wishes, and so forth. Branigan also explains the necessity of distinguishing levels of narration.

Author: Edward Branigan
ISBN-10: 9027930791
ISBN-13: 9789027930798
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1984
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d