Film narratology
"Most modern studies of narrative tend to focus predominantly on literature with only some reference to film. In Film Narratology, Peter W.J. Verstraten makes film narratives his primary focus, while noting the unexplored and essentially different narrative effects that film can produce with mise-en-scéne, cinematography, and editing. Reworking the definitive theory of narration offered by literary scholar Mieke Bal, Film Narratology examines cinematic techniques such as external and internal …
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- Full title :Film narratology / Peter Verstraten ; translated by Stefan van der Lecq.
Summary
"Most modern studies of narrative tend to focus predominantly on literature with only some reference to film. In Film Narratology, Peter W.J. Verstraten makes film narratives his primary focus, while noting the unexplored and essentially different narrative effects that film can produce with mise-en-scéne, cinematography, and editing.
Reworking the definitive theory of narration offered by literary scholar Mieke Bal, Film Narratology examines cinematic techniques such as external and internal narration, visual and auditive focalization, the narrative force of sound, and the ambiguities caused by voice-overs and flashbacks. Verstraten illustrates these narrative principles with a broad range of examples drawn from avant-garde cinema, golden age Hollywood, blockbusters, and European art cinema. Insightful and comprehensive, Film Narratology will surely become the standard reference of cinematic narration for film students and scholars."--pub. desc.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2009.
Notes
Translation of: Handboek Filmnarratologie.
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 259 pages : : illustrations, portraits ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780802093516, 0802093515, 9780802095053, 0802095054
- oclc:ocn276340925
- LC Classification:PN1995
- Dewey Decimal:791.43/6
Table of Contents
Is cinema essential narrative? -- Basic principles of narratology -- The narrative impact of the mise en scène -- The narrative impact of cinematography -- Story and fabula disconnected through editing -- The visual narrator and visual focalization -- Tension between the visual and auditive narrators -- Sound as a narrative force -- The narrative principles of genres -- Filmic excess : when style drowns the plot -- Appendix : The virgin suicides as a test case.
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