Film Narratology / / Peter Verstraten.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Verstraten, Peter,
• MitwirkendeR: Van der Lecq, Stefan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

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-scène, cinematography, and editing.Reworking the definitive theory of narration offeredby 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Is Cinema Essentially Narrative? -- 2 Basic Principles of Narratology -- 3 The Narrative Impact of the Mise en Scène -- 4 The Narrative Impact of Cinematography -- 5 Story and Fabula Disconnected through Editing -- 6 The Visual Narrator and Visual Focalization -- 7 Tension between the Visual and Auditive Narrators -- 8 Sound as a Narrative Force -- 9 The Narrative Principles of Genres -- 10 Filmic Excess: When Style Drowns the Plot -- Appendix: The Virgin Suicides as a Test Case -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index of Concepts -- Index of Names and Titles