Title Sequences as Paratexts
Narrative Anticipation and Recapitulation
Published on 30. October 2017
176 pages
978-1-351-32948-4 (ISBN)
Description
In his third book on the semiotics of title sequences, Title Sequences as Paratexts, theorist Michael Betancourt offers an analysis of the relationship between the title sequence and its primary text-the narrative whose production the titles credit. Using a wealth of examples drawn from across film history-ranging from White Zombie (1931), Citizen Kane (1940) and Bullitt (1968) to Prince of Darkness (1987), Mission: Impossible (1996), Sucker Punch (2011) and Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017)-Betancourt develops an understanding of how the audience interprets title sequences as instances of paranarrative, simultaneously engaging them as both narrative exposition and as credits for the production. This theory of cinematic paratexts, while focused on the title sequence, has application to trailers, commercials, and other media as well.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
31,69 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-32948-4 (9781351329484)
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Person
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.
Content
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
