Narrative and Narration : : Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling / / Warren Buckland.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Short Cuts
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 9 film stills
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART 1. 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 Hotel and Marnie)
  • PART 2. TYPES OF STORYTELLING
  • 5 Feminism, Narrative, Authorship (Gone Girl and Orlando)
  • 6 Art Cinema Narration (Alice in the Cities and 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