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This part lays out the general contents of the book and partly sets its tones. The part opens with what have been called “the basic dilemmas” of audiovisuality (Sect. 1.1): the dualism between realism and fiction (Sect. 1.1.1), and that between description and prescription (Sect. 1.1.2), both exemplified through the analysis of Walt Disney’s classic Bambi (Sect. 1.1.3). After that, Sect. 1.2 introduces the basic taxonomy of texts that will be dealt with in the book: media (Sect. 1.2.1), formats (Sect. 1.2.2) and genres (Sect. 1.2.3). Sect. 1.3 will conclude this part of the book through a schematic but hopefully exhaustive history of audiovisuality.
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Martinelli, D. (2020). Defining and Classifying Audiovisual Texts. In: What You See Is What You Hear. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32594-7_1
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