Introduction To Screen Narrative

Author : Paul Taberham,Catalina Iricinschi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000930627

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Introduction to Screen Narrative by Paul Taberham,Catalina Iricinschi Pdf

Bringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work. Exploring a variety of mediums including feature films, television, animation, and video games, the volume provides a contextual overview of the form and applies this to the practice of screenwriting. Featuring over 20 contributions, the volume surveys the art of screen narrative, and allows students and screenwriters to draw on crucial insights to further improve their screenwriting craft. Editors Paul Taberham and Catalina Iricinschi have curated a volume that spans a range of disciplines including screenwriting, film theory, philosophy and psychology with experience and expertise in storytelling, modern blockbusters, puzzle films and art cinema. Screenwriters interviewed include: Josh Weinstein (The Simpsons, Gravity Falls), David Greenberg (Stomping Ground, Used to Love Her), Evan Skolnick and Ioana Uricaru. Ideal for students of Screenwriting and Screen Narrative as well as aspiring screenwriters wanting to provide theoretical context to their craft.

Author : Sylke Rene Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000353549

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Interactive Storytelling for the Screen by Sylke Rene Meyer Pdf

An invaluable collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of interactive storytelling, this highly accessible guide offers invaluable insight into an ever-evolving field that is utilizing new spatial and interactive narrative forms to tell stories. This includes new media filmmaking and content creation, a huge variety of analog story world design, eXtended realities, game design, and virtual reality (VR) design. The book contains essays written by and interviews with working game designers, producers, 360-degree filmmakers, immersive theatre creators, and media professors, exploring the business side of interactive storytelling – where art meets business. Contributors to this book share their perspectives on how to break into the field; how to develop, nurture, and navigate business relationships; expectations in terms of business etiquette; strategies for contending with the emotional highs and lows of interactive storytelling; how to do creative work under pressure; the realities of working with partners in the field of new media narrative design; prepping for prototyping; writing analog and digital. This is an ideal resource for students of filmmaking, screenwriting, media studies, RTVF, game design, VR and AR design, theater, and journalism who are interested in navigating a career pathway in the exciting field of interactive storytelling.

Author : Ariane Hudelet,Anne Crémieux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000201253

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Exploring Seriality on Screen by Ariane Hudelet,Anne Crémieux Pdf

This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book historicizes and contextualizes the notion of seriality, combining narratological, aesthetic, industrial, philosophical, and political perspectives, showing how seriality as a paradigm informs media convergence and resides at the core of cinema and television history. By associating theoretical considerations and close readings of specific works, as well as diachronic and synchronic approaches, this volume offers a complex panorama of issues related to seriality including audience engagement, intertextuality and transmediality, cultural legitimacy, authorship, and medium specificity in remakes, adaptations, sequels, and reboots. Written by a team of international scholars, this book highlights a diversity of methodologies that will be of interest to scholars and doctoral students across disciplinary areas such as media studies, film studies, literature, aesthetics, and cultural studies. It will also interest students attending classes on serial audiovisual narratives and will appeal to fans of the series it addresses, such as Fargo, Twin Peaks, The Hunger Games, Bates Motel, and Sherlock.

Author : Ian Christie,Annie van den Oever
Publisher : Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : ART
ISBN : 9462985847

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Stories by Ian Christie,Annie van den Oever Pdf

This book identifies new phenomena in the fields of complex narration, puzzle film, and transmedia storytelling.

Author : Jane Stadler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000247251

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Screen Media by Jane Stadler Pdf

Screen Media offers screen enthusiasts the analytical and theoretical vocabulary required to articulate responses to film and television. The authors emphasise the importance of 'thinking on both sides of the screen'. They show how to develop the skills to understand and analyse how and why a screen text was shot, scored, and edited in a particular way, and then to consider what impact those production choices might have on the audience. Stadler and McWilliam set production techniques and approaches to screen analysis in historical context. They demystify technological developments and explain the implications of increasing convergence of film and television technologies. They also discuss aesthetics, narrative, realism, genre, celebrity, cult media and global screen culture. Throughout they highlight the links between screen theory and creative practice. With extensive international examples, Screen Media is an ideal introduction to critical engagement with film and television. 'Screen Media offers a systematic approach to film and television analysis. The examples chosen by the authors are both appropriate and timely, and are presented in a very lively and readable form that will appeal to an international readership.' - Rebecca L. Abbott, Professor of Film, Video + Interactive Media, Quinnipiac University, USA

Author : Laura Mulvey
Publisher : Koenig Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Feminism and motion pictures
ISBN : 3863359658

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Laura Mulvey 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' 1975 by Laura Mulvey Pdf

Since it first appeared in Screen in 1975, Laura Mulvey's essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" has been an enduring point of reference for artists, filmmakers, writers and theorists. Mulvey's compelling polemical analysis of visual pleasure has provoked and encouraged others to take positions, challenge preconceived ideas and produce new works that owe their possibility to the generative qualities of this key essay. In this book, the celebrated New York-based video artist Rachel Rose (born 1986) has produced an innovative work that extends and adds to the essay's frame of reference. Drawing on 18th- and 19th-century fairy tales, and observing how their flat narratives matched the flatness of their depictions, Rose created collages that connect these pre-cinematic illustrations to what Mulvey describes in her essay--cinema flattening sexuality into visuality.

Author : Ed Sikov
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231551564

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Film Studies, second edition by Ed Sikov Pdf

Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic. He treats a number of fundamental factors in filmmaking, including editing, composition, lighting, the use of color and sound, and narrative. His description of mise-en-scene helps readers grasp the significance of montage, which in turn reveals the importance of a director’s use of camera movement. Film Studies is designed for courses on film history, film theory, and popular culture. Its straightforward explanations of core critical concepts, practical advice, and technical, visual, and aesthetic aspects anchor the reader’s understanding of the formal language and anatomy of film and the techniques of film analysis. The second edition of this best-selling textbook adds two new chapters: “Film and Ideology,” which covers how to read a film’s political and social content, and other key topics in film theory, and “Film Studies in the Age of Digital Cinema,” which explores the central problems of studying film when “film” itself is no longer the medium.

Author : Warren Buckland
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231543590

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Narrative and Narration by Warren Buckland Pdf

From mainstream blockbusters to art house cinema, narrative and narration are the driving forces that organize a film. Yet attempts to explain these forces are often mired in notoriously complex terminology and dense theory. Warren Buckland provides a clear and accessible introduction that explains how narrative and narration work using straightforward language. Narrative and Narration distills the basic components of cinematic storytelling into a set of core concepts: narrative structure, processes of narration, and narrative agents. The book opens with a discussion of the emergence of narrative and narration in early cinema and proceeds to illustrate key ideas through numerous case studies. Each chapter guides readers through different methods that they can use to analyze cinematic storytelling. Buckland also discusses how departures from traditional modes, such as feminist narratives, art cinema, and unreliable narrators, can complicate and corroborate the book’s understanding of narrative and narration. Examples include mainstream films, both classic and contemporary; art house films of every stripe; and two relatively new styles of cinematic storytelling: the puzzle film and those driven by a narrative logic derived from video games. Narrative and Narration is a concise introduction that provides readers with fundamental tools to understand cinematic storytelling.

Author : John Izod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UVA:X000999863

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Reading the Screen by John Izod Pdf

Author : Martin Rieser,Andrea Zapp
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015055584869

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New Screen Media by Martin Rieser,Andrea Zapp Pdf

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Author : R. Pearson,A. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137388155

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Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age by R. Pearson,A. Smith Pdf

Why do screen narratives remain so different in an age of convergence and globalisation that many think is blurring distinctions? This collection attempts to answer this question using examples drawn from a range of media, from Hollywood franchises to digital comics, and a range of countries, from the United States to Japan

Author : Sylke Rene Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1003011292

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Interactive Storytelling for the Screen by Sylke Rene Meyer Pdf

"An invaluable collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of interactive storytelling, this highly accessible guide offers invaluable insight into an ever-evolving field that is utilising new spatial and interactive narrative forms to tell stories. This includes new media filmmaking and content creation, a huge variety of analog story world design, eXtended realities, game design, and VR design. The book contains essays written by and interviews with working game designers, producers, 360-degree filmmakers, immersive theatre creators and media professors, exploring the business side of interactive storytelling - where art meets business. Contributors to this book will share their perspectives on how to break into the field; how to develop, nurture, and navigate business relationships; expectations in terms of business etiquette; strategies for contending with the emotional highs and lows of interactive storytelling; how to do creative work under pressure; the realities of working with partners in the field of new media narrative design; prepping for prototyping; writing analog and digital; and more. This is an idea resource for students of filmmaking, screenwriting, media studies, RTVF, game design, VR and AR design, theatre, and journalism that are interested in navigating a career pathway in the exciting field of interactive storytelling"--

Author : Michael Ryan,Melissa Lenos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501318559

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An Introduction to Film Analysis by Michael Ryan,Melissa Lenos Pdf

An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interpretation. It takes readers step by step through: -the basic technical terms -shot-by-shot analyses of film sequences -set design, composition, editing, camera work, post-production, art direction and more -each chapter provides clear examples and full colour images from classic as well as contemporary films Ryan and Lenos's updated edition introduces students to the different kinds of lenses and their effects, the multiple possibilities of lighting, and the way post-production modifies images through such processes as saturation and desaturation. Students will learn to ask why the camera is placed where it is, why an edit occurs where it does, or why the set is designed in a certain way. The second section of the book focuses on critical analysis, introducing students to the various approaches to film, from psychology to history, with new analysis on postcolonial, transnational and Affect Theory. New to this edition is a third section featuring several in-depth analyses of films to put into practice what comes before: The Birds, The Shining, Vagabond, In the Mood for Love, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

Author : Michael Ryan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405182836

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An Introduction to Criticism by Michael Ryan Pdf

An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism. Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent developments in criticism such as evolutionary theory, cognitive studies, ethical criticism, and ecocriticism Offers explanations of key works and major ideas in literary criticism and suggests key elements to look for in a literary text Also applies critical approaches to various examples from film studies Helps students to build a critical framework and write analytically

Author : Jason Mittell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501308413

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Narrative Theory and Adaptation. by Jason Mittell Pdf

Narrative Theory and Adaptation offers a concise introduction to narrative theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Spike Jonze's critically acclaimed 2002 film Adaptation. Understanding narrative theory is crucial to make sense of the award-winning film Adaptation. The book explicates, in clear prose for beginners, four key facets important to the narrative theory of film: the distinction between practical vs. critical theory, the role of adaptation, the process of narrative comprehension, and notions of authorship. It then works to unlock Adaptation using these four keys in succession, considering how the film demands a theoretical understanding of the storytelling process. In using this unusual case study of a film, the author makes the case for the importance of narrative theory as a general perspective for filmmakers, critics, and viewers alike.