Unveiling the Magic of Films

Adopting a social semiotic perspective, this book provides a methodology for film segmentation, transcription, and analysis through a comprehensive study of scenes that use verbal and gestural communication differently from the film Roman Holiday. This book applies the research of film to explore the features of classical Hollywood storytelling. This book provides readers with information on how actors and the filmmaking team create performance units and boundaries, how the etic and emic methods support the transcription of film performance, and how actors and the filmmaking team develop characters and stories with the aid of a range of verbal and non-verbal semiotic resources. This book explores many aspects of film including; acting, art direction, cinematography, editing, phase, and genre with the support of psychological, social semiotic, and linguistic theories. Situated at the intersection of film studies, social semiotics, and discourse analysis, this book appeals to readers of interdisciplinary fields. Readers can be advanced students, academic researchers, and people interested in film and social semiotic studies.