The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond
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The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond

Let Cinema Speak

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond

Let Cinema Speak

About this book

Roberta Piazza's book is a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema covering a selection of films from the 1950s to the present day.It looks at how speech is dealt with in studies of the cinema and tackles the lack of engagement with dialogue in film studies. It explores the representation of discourse in cinema -- the way particular manifestations of verbal interaction are reproduced in film.Whereas 'representation' generally refers to the language used in texts to assign meaning to a group and its social practices, here discourse representation more directly refers to the relationship between real-life and cinematic discourse.Piazza analyses how fictional dialogue reinterprets authentic interaction in order to construe particular meanings. Beginning by exploring the relationship between discourse and genre, the second half of the book takes a topic-based approach and reflects on the themes of narrative and identity.The analysis carried out takes on board the multi-semiotic and multimodal components of film discourse. The book uses also uses concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781441178879
eBook ISBN
9781441182579
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Film & Video
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Chapter One: Background and introduction
  4. Chapter Two: ā€˜If you could say it with words, thereā€™d be no reason to paintā€™. The verbalā€“visual interrelation in cinema
  5. Chapter Three: Methodology of the study: the focus on the representation of conflict in film
  6. Chapter Four: Confrontational discourse in comedy and the disengagement of dramatic talk
  7. Chapter Five: Spaghetti and American Westerns: textual conflict between opposing masculinities
  8. Chapter Six: The struggle for narrative autonomy in Antonioniā€™s When Love Fails
  9. Chapter Seven: Conflict of shifting identities in Mohsen Mellitiā€™s Me, the Other
  10. Chapter Eight: Concluding remarks
  11. Notes
  12. References and filmography
  13. Index