| Description |
xv, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : what is film narration, after all? -- Storytelling situations : working definitions -- From silence to sound : texts and voices -- New wave ; art cinema ; how it is -- Voice-over narration : Orpheus and Sunset Boulevard -- Dramatized narration : The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Hiroshima Mon Amour -- Multiple narration : Rashomon and Zelig -- Written narration : Letter from an Unknown Woman and Diary of a Country Priest -- Mindscreen narration -- Brief Encounter (with a bow to Daybreak) -- Continuation : questions for research -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
"In Narrated Films, Avrom Fleishman explores the distinctive literary techniques often used by filmmakers to tell their stories. Through close viewings of ingeniously paired films, Fleishman documents five narrational practices in the cinema: voice-over (Orpheus and Sunset Boulevard) dramatized narration, in which the film is a story that one character tells another (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Hiroshima Mon Amour) multiple narration, in which a number of characters tell the story that is the film (Rashomon and Zelig) written narration, whether through diaries or letters (Letter from an Unknown Woman and Diary of a Country Priest) and the cinematic version of interior monologue, which Fleishman terms mindscreen narration (Brief Encounter and Daybreak)." -- Publisher description |
| Analysis |
Cinema Films (Motion pictures) |
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Cinema Films (Motion pictures) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Motion pictures and literature.
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Motion pictures.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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| LC no. |
91012350 |
| ISBN |
0801842220 (alk. paper) |
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0801878659 (paperback) |
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