Michael Betancourt

Title Sequences as Paratexts (eBook, ePUB)

Narrative Anticipation and Recapitulation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In his third critical book on title sequences, Title Sequences as Paratexts, author Michael Betancourt offers a semiotic analysis of the title sequence as a paratext, in relation to its primary text-the narrative whose production the titles credit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351329477
• Artikelnr.: 50141724

Autorenporträt

Michael Betancourt is an artist/theorist concerned with digital technology and capitalist ideology. His writing has been translated into Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and been published in magazines such as The Atlantic, Make Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, Leonardo, Semiotica, and CTheory. He wrote The ____________ Manifesto, and other books such as The Critique of Digital Capitalism, The History of Motion Graphics, Semiotics and Title Sequences, Synchronization and Title Sequences, Glitch Art in Theory and Practice, and Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing. These publications complement his movies, which have screened internationally at the Black Maria Film Festival, Art Basel Miami Beach, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Athens Video Art Festival, Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, the San Francisco Cinematheque's Crossroads, and Experiments in Cinema, among many others.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1 INTRODUCTION
Limina
Anticipation and Recapitulation
Problems of Cinematic Paratext
2 Narrative Exposition
Pseudo-Independence
Intratextuality
3 Expositional Modes
The Allegory mode
Lexical Expertise
4 The Comment mode
Narrative Futurity
Intertextuality and Quotation
5 The Summary mode
Complex Summary
Narrative Restatement
6 The Prologue mode
Realist Integration
Expository Texts
7 CONCLUSIONS
The Paradoxes of Cinematic Paratext
Typography and Pseudo-Independence
The Ideology of Naturalism::Stylization
Index