MULTIMODALITY IN MISE-EN-SCÈNE COMMUNICATION

Multimodality is an important research area to help understand the plurality of communication channels existing in human interaction. This book presents a multimodal analysis of "mise-en-scčne communication," which emerges as theater directors and set designers talk and build a dramatic scene in their everyday work experiences. Emphasizing mise-en- scčne communication as multimodal, the author also offers fresh insights into how artists use complex assemblies of visual representations such as architectural drawings, scale models, miniature props, and 3-D virtual animations and compose them in dramaturgically sensitive way. This book presents a comprehensive description of the major theoretical perspectives that guide research on embodied interaction and communicative resources including language, gestures, bodily conduct, the material surround, and physical objects. It also sheds light into representational forms as a material, perceptual field, which shapes embodied interaction systematically performed within it. This book exemplifies a critical synthesis of language, semiotics, nonverbal communication, and enthnomethodology.