This book offers new descriptions of the visual strand of meaning in picture book narratives as a way of furthering the project of 'multimodal' discourse analysis and of explaining the literacy demands and apprenticing techniques of children's earliest literature.
In over 30 essays, written over 20 years, one of the world's great story-tellers meditates on story-telling
Discusses back stories, psychology, research, relationships, supporting characters, stereotypes and character problems, and offers advice on writing dialogue.
Is there a significant difference in attitude between immersion in a game and immersion in a movie or novel? What are the new possibilities for representation offered by the emerging technology of virtual reality? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in this book, the questions rais…
First published in 1987, this title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carr, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell a history of modern society, translating the political and cultural transformations…
Indeholder bl.a. analyser af James Cameron's Titanic, The lion king, The full monty og Star wars