Film narratology /

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-scCne, cinematography, and editing.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Verstraten, Peter
Other Authors: Lecq, Stefan van der
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Dutch
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press ©2009.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv2fjwz36
Table of Contents:
  • Is cinema essential narrative?
  • Basic principles of narratology
  • The narrative impact of the mise en scène
  • The narrative impact of cinematography
  • Story and fabula disconnected through editing
  • The visual narrator and visual focalization
  • Tension between the visual and auditive narrators
  • Sound as a narrative force
  • The narrative principles of genres
  • Filmic excess : when style drowns the plot
  • Appendix : The virgin suicides as a test case.