New Directions in Film Studies: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach

Authors

  • Dolly Seehra Ph. D. Research Scholar Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani
  • Dr B. Geetha Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa.

Keywords:

Textual, Structuring, Cohesion, Design patterns, Films

Abstract

Drawing on Halliday and Hasan’s Cohesion Framework this paper examines the textual organization in the short film titled, “Migration” directed by Mira Nair. The textual of the targeted narrative of the short film, focusing on the mobilized filmic cohesive resources is unpacked. This investigation exhibits the pre-structuring done by the filmmaker to keep the target viewers in constrained interpretive domains. Cohesion analysis opens up the basic structuring and design pattern of the film for further debates and interpretations. It explicitly shows how characters move in respect to other objects, settings and other characters in the film. The result of such an analysis is the systemic exploration of the filmic corpus.

Author Biographies

Dolly Seehra, Ph. D. Research Scholar Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani

Dolly Seehra, PhD student in the Department of Humanities and Social Science at BITS Pilani. She is working in the area of Film Studies and Linguistics.

Dr B. Geetha, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa.

Dr. Geetha Bakilapadavu is Associate Professor at BITS Pilani. She has eighteen years of teaching experience and has taught courses in the areas of Literature and Film Studies, Short Film Making, Technical Writing, Technical Communication and Humanities and Design. Her Doctoral research was in the area of interphase between Science Fiction and Philosophy. She is a recipient of Science Fiction Foundation at Liverpool ‘s Bursary Award. Her areas of current research include Film Studies and Digital Humanities. Apart from journal publications, she has co-edited an anthology of essays titled Exploring Science Fiction: Text and Pedagogy. She also has her poems published in poetry anthologies.

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Published

01.07.2018

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Dolly Seehra, & Dr B. Geetha. (2018). New Directions in Film Studies: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach. Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 9(3), 7–11. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/54

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Vol. 9 No. 3 (2018): July

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