Film Text Analysis

Janina Wildfeuer is a Researcher in Multimodal Linguistics in the Linguistics Department of the University of Bremen, Germany, specializing in multimodal linguistics and media studies. Her recent publications include a monograph on Film Discourse Interpretation from 2014 as well as an edited collection of papers building bridges for multimodal research (2015). John A. Bateman is a Full Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English and Linguistics Departments of the University of Bremen, Germany, specializing in functional, computational and multimodal linguistics. His recent publications include monographs on Multimodal Film Analysis (2012) as well as on the Text and Image divide (2014).

"The first collection to give an overview of the field of film text analysis including a wide variety of approaches, methodological advances and in-depth analyses hinting at the possibilities of multimodality studies for film." – Florian Mundhenke, University of Leipzig, Germany

• 1. Introduction: Bringing Together New Perspectives of Film Text Analysis John A. Bateman and Janina Wildfeuer2. Towards a Semiotics of Film Lighting Theo van Leeuwen and Morten Boeriis3. Editing Space as an Audio-Visual Composition Martine Huvenne 4. Movie Physics or Dynamic Patterns as the Skeleton of Movies Wolfgang Wildgen 5. From Visual Narrative Grammar to Filmic Narrative Grammar: The Narrative Structure of Static and Moving Images Neil Cohn6. From Text to Recipient: Pragmatic Insights for Filmic Meaning ConstructionJanina Wildfeuer7. Intermediality in Film: A Blending-Based Perspective John A. Bateman8. Eat, Pray, Love: Expanding Adaptations and Global Tourism Joyce Goggin 9. Conclusion: Film Text Analysis – A New Beginning? Janina Wildfeuer and John A. Bateman