Warren Buckland (New Review Of Film And Television Studies Editor)

Narrative and Narration

Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Short Cuts
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 141mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9780231181433
• ISBN-10: 0231181434
• Artikelnr.: 59995645

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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