Multimodal analysis of film within the gem framework

Authors

  • John A. Bateman University of Bremen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2013n64p49

Abstract

 

In this paper, the predominantly visual framework developed for the analysis of static multimodal documents within the Genre and Multimodality project ‘GeM’ is considered as a foundation for treating non-static multimodal artifacts. The paper introduces the original framework and characterizes how it can be beneficially extended to work with the moving audio-moving image. Several illustrations of the new framework’s application to narrative film are presented in order to show how it may provide stronger support for empirical investigations of artifacts of this kind.

Author Biography

John A. Bateman, University of Bremen

Len Unsworth is Professor in English and literacies Education at Griffith University in  brisbane,  australia.  his book publications include [with  angela Thomas,  alyson Simpson and Jenny  asha] Teaching children’s literature with Information and Communication Technologies (McGraw-hill/open University Press 2005), e-literature for children and classroom literacy learning (routledge, 2006), New Literacies and the English Curriculum (Continuum, 2008), Multimodal Semiotics (Continuum, 2008) and, with Clare Painter and Jim Martin, Reading Visual Narratives (Equinox, 2012).

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Published

2013-07-25

Issue

No. 64 (2013): Studies in Multimodality

Section

Articles

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