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Point of View in the Cinema

Point of View in the Cinema

Hardcover

Series: Approaches to Semiotics [As], Book 66

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ISBN10: 9027930791
ISBN13: 9789027930798
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Dec 1 1984
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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