Bakhtin and the movies

new ways of understanding Hollywood film

Martin Flanagan

Palgrave Macmillan

2009

Abstract

Martin Flanagan uses Bakhtin's notions of dialogism, chronotope and polyphony to address fundamental questions about film form and reception, focussing particularly on the way cinematic narrative utilises time and space in its very construction.

Cited authors

Bachtin Michajl

Flanagan Martin