Building Narratives on Screen
New Approaches in Telecinematic Stylistics
1st Edition
Published on 24. February 2026
240 pages
978-1-040-51865-6 (ISBN)
Description
This collection seeks to advance the growing field of telecinematic stylistics, building on burgeoning research in the stylistic study of aural and visual cinematic discourse through interdisciplinary perspectives and innovative methodologies.
The volume expands on new approaches in stylistics, which have moved beyond monomodal emphasis and pragmatic-based analyses. Drawing on a wide range of cinematic texts across genres, contributions showcase both qualitative and quantitative research and their affordances for rich analyses of how telecinematic media use narrative elements to entertain and engage audiences. Examples range from classics such as the Star Trek series and Fargo to contemporary films such as Promising Young Woman and Aftersun. Established and emerging scholars explore such topics as the evolution of style in adaptations, feminist readings, the effect of metaphors, and building worlds through a stylistic lens.
Bringing the study of production and performance analysis together with traditional stylistic approaches to stylistic texts, this book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in stylistics, multimodality, film studies, and media studies.
The volume expands on new approaches in stylistics, which have moved beyond monomodal emphasis and pragmatic-based analyses. Drawing on a wide range of cinematic texts across genres, contributions showcase both qualitative and quantitative research and their affordances for rich analyses of how telecinematic media use narrative elements to entertain and engage audiences. Examples range from classics such as the Star Trek series and Fargo to contemporary films such as Promising Young Woman and Aftersun. Established and emerging scholars explore such topics as the evolution of style in adaptations, feminist readings, the effect of metaphors, and building worlds through a stylistic lens.
Bringing the study of production and performance analysis together with traditional stylistic approaches to stylistic texts, this book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in stylistics, multimodality, film studies, and media studies.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
22 Tables, black and white; 13 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white
File size
4,44 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-51865-6 (9781040518656)
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Paula Ghintuial? | Kimberley Pager-McClymont
Building Narratives on Screen
New Approaches in Telecinematic Stylistics
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Routledge
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Persons
Paula Ghintuiala is a teaching fellow in the English Department at Aston University, Birmingham.
Kimberley Pager-McClymont is a curriculum leader in English Language at the University of Aberdeen's International Study Centre.
Kimberley Pager-McClymont is a curriculum leader in English Language at the University of Aberdeen's International Study Centre.
Content
Foreword (Christian R. Hoffmann), Introduction from Book Editors (Paula Ghintuiala, Kimberley Pager-McClymont) 1. "What I means and what I says is two different things": Analysing the creative, deviating stylistic structures of Dahl's The BFG and its multimodal adaptations on the big screen (Paul Flanagan) 2. Characterizing Diana: Metaphors, Symbols, and Schemas in The Crown (Kimberley Pager-McClymont) 3. Multimodal Complications of Characterization in Modernized Televisual Adaptations: Parameter-pushing Extrapolations and Object-mediated Linkages in Richard Eyre's King Lear (Yi Fan) 4. Intertextuality and characterisation in The Mirror Crack'd. (Clara Neary and Simon Statham) 5. "It's every guy's worst nightmare, getting accused like that. - Can you guess what every girl's worst nightmare is?": a telecinematic stylistic analysis of women's and men's portrayal in Promising Young Woman. (Paula Ghintuiala, Aston University, Kimberley Pager-McClymont) 6. Humour in comedy discourse: A pragma-stylistic analysis of the American TV series The Office. (Urszula Kizelbach) 7. You're a f**ing liar: Pragmastylistic approaches to (im)politeness, storytelling and untruthfulness in Fargo (1996). (Aoife Beville) 8. E. 'Bloody fucking amazing!' - Re-Evaluating Emotionality in US Hollywood Screenplays. (Christian R. Hoffmann) 9. BBuilding fantasy worlds from page to screen: a corpus-stylistic approach to The Eye of the World and The Wheel of Time. (Adrian Castro) 10. SShow, don't tell! A scheme for telecinematic glossopoesis. (Israel A. C. Noletto) 11. The art of restraint: Showing a tragedy in Aftersun (Wells, 2022). (Paula Ghintuiala), Concluding Remarks (Paula Ghintuiala, Kimberley Pager-McClymont), Index
