From mainstream blockbusters to art house cinema, narrative and narration are the driving forces that organize a film. Yet attempts to explain these forces are often mired in notoriously complex terminology and dense theory. Warren Buckland provides a clear and accessible introduction that explains
Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling
β Scribed by Warren Buckland
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 151
- Series
- Short Cuts: Introductions to Film Studies
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Table of Contacts
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Basics
1 The Emergence of Narrative, Narration, and Narrative Agents in Early Cinema (The Gay Shoe Clerk)
2 Narrative Structure in Classical and Contemporary Hollywood (Hitchcock and James Bond)
3 Narration (Gone Girl, beDevil, and Jurassic Park)
4 Enunciation and Reflexivity (The Grand Budapest Hoteland Marnie)
Part II. Types of Storytelling
5 Feminism, Narrative, Authorship (Gone Girland Orlando)
6 Art Cinema Narration (Alice in the Citiesand Inland Empire)
7 Unreliable Narration and Puzzle Films (You Only Live Once, Stage Fright, and The Butterfly Effect)
8 Videogame Logic (The Fifth Element, Inception, and Source Code)
Coda
Works Cited
Index
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