Voice-over and self-narrative in film: A multimodal analysis of Antonioni's When Love Fails (Tentato Suicidio)

Language and Literature

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-195

  Piazza, Roberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(non) transactional; Agency; Antonioni; Deixis; Eye line; Gaze; Love in the City; Multimodality; Narrative styles; Participants; Vector; Voice over

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951875734     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963947010362911     Document Type: Article

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