Full Description
Linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema, using concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis.
Contents
1. Background and Introduction
2. The Verbal-Visual Interrelation in Cinema
3. The Focus on the Representation of Conflict in Film
4. Confrontational Discourse in Comedy and the Disengagement of Dramatic Talk
5. Spaghetti and American Westerns: Textual Conflict Marking the Clash Between Opposing Masculinities
6. The Struggle for Narrative Autonomy in Antonioni's When Love Fails
7. The Discourse of Identity and Confrontation in Mohsen Melliti's Me, the Other
8. Conclusions
9. References and Filmography
Index