Narration in the Fiction Film

Author: David Bordwell
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299101749
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Mimetic theories of narration - Diegetic theories of narration - The viewe's activity - Principles of narration - Sin, murder, and narration - Narration and time - Narration and space - Modes and norms - Classical narration : the Hollywood example - Art-cinema narration - Historical-materialist narration : the soviet example - Parametric narration - Godard and narration.

Sense of Film Narration

Author: Ian Garwood
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748678417
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature-length fiction film.

Story and Discourse

Author: Seymour Chatman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501741616
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
"For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story—whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his subject into the 'what' of the narrative (Story) and the 'way' (Discourse)... Chatman's command of his material is impressive."—Library Journal

Narrative Comprehension and Film

Author: Edward Branigan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136129324
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383

Book Description
Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understnad the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everday conversations and in the nonfictional discourses of journalists, historians, educators, psychologists, attorneys and many others. Edward Branigan presents a telling exploration of the basic concepts of narrative theory and its relation to film - and literary - analysis, bringing together theories from linguistics and cognitive science, and applying them to the screen. Individual analyses of classical narratives form the basis of a complex study of every aspect of filmic fiction exploring, for example, subjectivity in Lady in the Lake, multiplicity in Letter from and Unknown Woman, post-modernism and documentary in Sans Soleil.

On the History of Film Style

Author: David Bordwell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674634299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Bordwell scrutinizes the theories of style launched by various film historians and celebrates a century of cinema. The author examines the contributions of many directors and shows how film scholars have explained stylistic continuity and change.

Invisible Storytellers

Author: Sarah Kozloff
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520909663
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
"Let me tell you a story," each film seems to offer silently as its opening frames hit the screen. But sometimes the film finds a voice—an off-screen narrator—for all or part of the story. From Wuthering Heights and Double Indemnity to Annie Hall and Platoon, voice-over narration has been an integral part of American movies. Through examples from films such as How Green Was My Valley, All About Eve, The Naked City, and Barry Lyndon, Sarah Kozloff examines and analyzes voice-over narration. She refutes the assumptions that words should only play a minimal role in film, that "showing" is superior to "telling," or that the technique is inescapably authoritarian (the "voice of god"). She questions the common conception that voice-over is a literary technique by tracing its origins in the silent era and by highlighting the influence of radio, documentaries, and television. She explores how first-person or third-person narration really affects a film, in terms of genre conventions, viewer identification, time and nostalgia, subjectivity, and reliability. In conclusion she argues that voice-over increases film's potential for intimacy and sophisticated irony.

Coming to Terms

Author: Seymour Benjamin Chatman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801497360
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description

A Philosophy of Cinematic Art

Author: Berys Gaut
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521822440
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
A wide-ranging and accessible study of cinema as an art form, discussing traditional photographic films, digital cinema, and videogames.

Narration in the Fiction Film

Author: David Bordwell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136099166
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
In this study, David Bordwell offers a comprehensive account of how movies use fundamental principles of narrative representation, unique features of the film medium, and diverse story-telling patterns to construct their fictional narratives.

Seeing Fictions in Film

Author: George M. Wilson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199594899
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
What happens when we view a movie? Do we actually see the fiction, and if so how? Literary fiction is recounted by a voice of some sort--the narrator. George M. Wilson explores the strategies of cinematic narration, and argues that this prompts viewers to imagine seeing and hearing events in the fictional world.