From Plato to Lumière : : Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema /

From Plato to Lumière : : Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema / / Andre Gaudreault.

With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust...

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VerfasserIn:
Gaudreault, Andre,
TeilnehmendeR:
Barnard, Timothy.
MitwirkendeR:
Gunning, Tom,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2009
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Preface to the English-language edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Early Cinema and Narrativity
  • 2. Narrative Problems
  • 3. In Search of the First Film Narrative
  • 4. Early Narratology: Mimesis and Diegesis
  • 5. Textual Narrative and Staged Narrative
  • 6. Narration and Monstration
  • 7. The Narrator and the Monstrator
  • 8. Narration and Monstration in the Cinema
  • 9. The Film Narrative System
  • 10. The Origins of the Film Narrator
  • 11. Narrator(s)
  • 12. A Monstrative Entertainment, Assisted by Narration
  • 13. Delegated Film Narrators
  • Conclusion
  • Afterword (1998): Cinema, Between Literariness and Intermediality
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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