Image and Mind

This is a book about the nature of film: about the nature of moving images about the viewer''s relation to film and about the kinds of narrative that film is capable of presenting. It represents a very decisive break with the semiotic and psychoanalytic theories of film that have dominated discussion over the past twenty years. Professor Currie provides a general theory of pictorial narration and its interpretation in both pictorial and linguistic media and concludes with an analysis of some ways in which film narrative and literary narrative differ.