Narrative Comprehension and Film, First Edition Sightlines Series Routledge Edward Branigan Paperback © 1992 ISBN: 0-415-07512-2 Publication Status: In Print Readership: Advanced students of film studies and literary studies Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understand the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everyday conversations and in the nonfictional discourses of journalists, historians, educators, psychologists, attorneys and many others. Edward Branigan presents a telling exploration of the basic concepts of narrative theory and its relation to film - and literary - analysis, bringing together theories from linguistics and cognitive science, and applying them to the screen. Individual analyses of classical narratives form the basis of a complex study of every aspect ot filmic fiction exploring, for example, subjectivity in Lady in the ake, multiplicity in Letter from an Unknown Woman, post-modernism and documentary in Sans Soleil. Through his exploration of film, Branigan expresses how narratology should be viewed as a distinctive strategy for recognising, isolating and articulating the fundamental role which narrative plays in our response to the world as a whole. Published in English , First Published in the EU September 1992 Size: 320 pages, Dimensions: 234x156mm 6.25x9.25 inches

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