(Ebook) The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond Let Cinema Speak 1st Edition by Roberta Piazza ISBN 1441136975 9781441136978

(Ebook) The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond Let Cinema Speak 1st Edition by Roberta Piazza ISBN 1441136975 9781441136978

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ISBN 10: 1441136975 
ISBN 13: 9781441136978
Author: Roberta Piazza

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.

(Ebook) The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond Let Cinema Speak 1st Table of contents:

Chapter One: Background and introduction
1.1 Background and aims of the study
1.2 Relevance of dialogue in the context of a film
1.3 The organization of the study and core notions
1.4 Organization of the study
Chapter Two: ‘If you could say it with words, there’d be no reason to paint’. The verbal–vis
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Methodology for the investigation of the verbal–visual interaction
2.3 The categories of anticipation, post-hoc commentary and conflictuality
2.4 A final reflection on the verbal–visual relationship
Chapter Three: Methodology of the study: the focus on the representation of conflict in film
3.1 Introduction. General aims of the study
3.2 The verbal dimension. Conflict as the lens for the analysis of film dialogue
3.3 The visual dimension
3.4 The data
3.5 The methodological framework for the study of conflict in film
3.6 Conclusion
Chapter Four: Confrontational discourse in comedy and the disengagement of dramatic talk
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The tool kit for the analysis of conflict in comedy and melodrama
4.3 Questions of film genre and the definition of the corpus
4.4 The analysis of film dialogue. Verbal confrontation in Italian comedy
4.5 The analysis of conflict talk in melodrama
4.6 Discussion of the results and concluding remarks
Chapter Five: Spaghetti and American Westerns: textual conflict between opposing masculinities
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Italian and American Westerns
5.3 Irony as the expression of verbal conflict in Westerns
5.4 The linguistic scholarship on irony
5.5 Analysis: the cowboys’ use of irony
5.6 Beyond words: multimodality
5.7 Discussion of the results and conclusion
Chapter Six: The struggle for narrative autonomy in Antonioni’s When Love Fails
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The background of the study of Antonioni’s film
6.3 Contextualization of the study and methodology
6.4 The film
6.5 Verbal–visual analysis
6.6 Final discussion and conclusion
Chapter Seven: Conflict of shifting identities in Mohsen Melliti’s Me, the Other
7.1 Introduction. The director and the film
7.2 The discourse of identity
7.3 Performing identities: from plurality to duality in Me, the Other
7.4 Conclusion
Chapter Eight: Concluding remarks
Notes
References and filmography
Index
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