1st Edition

AI for Understanding Subtext in Film and Drama

By Yair Neuman Copyright 2027
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

AI for Understanding Subtext in Film and Drama offers a novel, rigorous, and deeply reflective approach to one of the most elusive problems in aesthetics and interpretation: how meaning emerges when it is not explicitly stated. Drawing on film and drama case studies – from Pulp Fiction and Bergman to Pinter and Mamet – Prof. Yair Neuman develops a structured methodology for uncovering... Read more

Part 1: Reading between the Lines  1. Royale with Cheese: Subtext and the Inward Significance of Art  2. The Cat as a Looking Glass: Attentive Observation for Uncovering the Subtext  3. On Terrible Coffee, Two Embarrassed Men, and an Angry Woman: The Pragmatics of Subtext  Part 2: Case Studies  4. A Honeymoon that went Wrong: Subtext in Private Lives  5. The Rabbi and the Physicist: Subtext in A Serious Man  6. Was it Mostly Poopy? Subtext in Portnoy’s Complaint  Part 3: Reading in-between the Lines  7. Presence through Absence: Four Guidelines for Reading in-between the Lines  Part 4: Case Studies  8. “Did you just Order a Five-Dollar Shake?”: Subtext in Pulp Fiction  9. “Too Marvelous for Words”: Subtext in The Vortex  10. Seeing Ourselves through Others: Subtext in Scenes from a Marriage  11. “Just a Tickle”: Subtext in The Homecoming  12. Swirling the Guacamole: Subtext in Enough Said  13. The Evil of Righteousness: Subtext in Oleana  14. Concluding Discussion: The Manifold of Meaning

Biography

Yair Neuman is a leading figure in applying AI for the humanities. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers and academic manuscripts, and was a visiting Professor at MIT, the University of Oxford, the University of Toronto, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.