New Directions in Film Studies: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach
Keywords:
Textual, Structuring, Cohesion, Design patterns, FilmsAbstract
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.
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