Film narratology / Peter Verstraten ; translated by Stefan van der Lecq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verstraten, Peter, author.

Contributor:

Lecq, Stefan van der, editor.

Standardized Title:

Handboek Filmnarratologie. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Is cinema essential narrative?

Basic principles of narratology

The narrative impact of the mise en scene

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.

Notes:

Translation of: Handboek Filmnarratologie.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4426-6557-2

1-4426-9794-6

OCLC:

706078661