Buckland Narrative and Narration

Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-54359-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

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Warren Buckland provides a clear and accessible introduction that explains how narrative and narration work using straightforward language. He distills the basic components of cinematic storytelling into a set of core concepts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buckland, Warren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Basics
1 The Emergence of Narrative, Narration, and Narrative Agents in Early Cinema (The Gay Shoe Clerk)
2 Narrative Structure in Classical and Contemporary Hollywood (Hitchcock and James Bond)
3 Narration (Gone Girl, beDevil, and Jurassic Park)
4 Enunciation and Reflexivity (The Grand Budapest Hoteland Marnie)
Part II. Types of Storytelling
5 Feminism, Narrative, Authorship (Gone Girland Orlando)
6 Art Cinema Narration (Alice in the Citiesand Inland Empire)
7 Unreliable Narration and Puzzle Films (You Only Live Once, Stage Fright, and The Butterfly Effect)
8 Videogame Logic (The Fifth Element, Inception, and Source Code)
Coda
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Warren Buckland is reader in film studies at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Film Studies: An Introduction, fifth edition (2015); Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema (2009); and Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster (2006).