Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld

A Semiotic Analysis

Dr. Warren Buckland (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7732-7 (ISBN)

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Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld presents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive. Chapter by chapter, it relentlessly pulls apart each of Anderson’s narratives to pursue the proposition that they all share the same deep underlying symbolic values – a common symbolic storyworld. Taking the polemical strategy of outlining and employing Claude Lévi-Strauss’s distinguished (and notorious) work on myth and kinship to analyze eight of Anderson’s films, Warren Buckland unearths the peculiar symbolic structure of each film, plus the circuits of exchange, tangible and intangible gift giving, and unusual kinship systems that govern the lives of Anderson’s characters. He also provides an analysis of Wes Anderson’s visual and aural style, identifying several distinctive traits of Anderson’s mise en scène.

Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions (2012), Directed by Steven Spielberg (2006), and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film (2000).

Preface

Section One: Theory

1. Symbolic Storyworlds
2. Film Theory, Film Analysis

Section Two: The Films

3. Unintentional Mediation: Bottle Rocket
4. Dead Relatives and Intergenerational Relationships: Rushmore
5. Imperial Kinship: The Royal Tenenbaums
6. Conflicts of Ambivalence: Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
7. Fraternal Rivalry: The Darjeeling Limited and Hotel Chevalier
8. Human versus Animal Subworld: Fantastic Mr. Fox
9. The Orphan and the Bachelor: Moonrise Kingdom
10. Rules of Descent and Laws of Inheritance: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Section Three: Finale

11. The Symbolic Storyworld of Wes Anderson

Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.04.2021
Zusatzinfo	14 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-7732-9 / 1501377329
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7732-7 / 9781501377327
Zustand	Neuware