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The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond

Name: The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond
Author: Roberta Piazza

Let Cinema Speak

Roberta Piazza,

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The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond

Let Cinema Speak

Roberta Piazza,

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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.

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Publisher

Continuum

Year

2010

ISBN

9781441182579

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Linguistic Semantics

Index

Languages & Linguistics

Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Background and introduction
Chapter Two: ‘If you could say it with words, there’d be no reason to paint’. The verbal–visual interrelation in cinema
Chapter Three: Methodology of the study: the focus on the representation of conflict in film
Chapter Four: Confrontational discourse in comedy and the disengagement of dramatic talk
Chapter Five: Spaghetti and American Westerns: textual conflict between opposing masculinities
Chapter Six: The struggle for narrative autonomy in Antonioni’s When Love Fails
Chapter Seven: Conflict of shifting identities in Mohsen Melliti’s Me, the Other
Chapter Eight: Concluding remarks
Notes
References and filmography
Index