AI for Understanding Subtext in Film and Drama

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-36785-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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 subtext through a disciplined tri-alogue between the human reader, the text, and artificial intelligence. The book introduces third-mind hermeneutics: a theoretically grounded, pedagogically applicable framework that uses large language models as tools for attentive observation rather than mechanical explanation. The result is a work that enriches aesthetic experience, sharpens interpretive skill, and extends the analysis of subtext beyond art to everyday human interaction.

The book will be of strong interest to researchers and advanced students, scholars in human–AI interaction and AI for the humanities, and educators teaching interpretation, subtext, and critical reading. It is suitable for graduate-level courses, advanced undergraduate seminars, and interdisciplinary programs that bridge the humanities, social sciences, and AI studies.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neuman, Yair

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Spracherkennung, Sprachverarbeitung
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Unternehmenssoftware
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.