Film Narratology / / Peter Verstraten.

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-...

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