This book marries the research fields of literature studies, film studies and Systemic Functional Semiotics by systematically outlining semiotic resources to transform key literary elements and devices from printed to filmic literature.

It conceptualises the meaning potential of key participating semiotic resources in films and their construction of literary concepts. It proposes a method for intermodality research dealing with texts that have more than two modes including sound. It outlines a pedagogy for teaching filmic literature and showcases the applications of the theories into classroom teaching and learning.

This book will be of great interest to researchers, teacher educators, teacher consultants, Language Arts curriculum developers and postgraduate students in the field of multimodality, literature studies, language and literacy education, linguistics and film and media studies. This book has clear applications to other disciplinary fields using films.

Thu Ngo is senior lecturer in Language and Literacies education at University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research interests include multimodal and filmic literature, multimodal digital and traditional literacy. Thu’s book ‘Modelling Paralanguage from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Semiotics’ is related to this book.

Len Unsworth is Professor in English and Literacies Education at the Australian Catholic University, Australia. His research interests include literature, multimodal digital literacy (animation and film). Len’s books include Functional Grammatics and Image for School English; English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy; and Reading Visual Narratives.