Narrative Comprehension and Film

<p>Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understnad the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books but also in everday conversations and in the nonfictional discourses of journalists historians educators psychologists attorneys and many others.<br>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 of filmic fiction exploring for example subjectivity in <em>Lady in the Lake</em> multiplicity in <em>Letter from and Unknown Woman</em> post-modernism and documentary in <em>Sans Soleil</em>.</p>