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11) Cinematic narrative
Main reading:
NT: Chapter 11:
Cinematic Narratives
Print readings:
Strongly recommended:
Bordwell, David. Narration in the Fiction Film. London: Methuen, 1985. (PN1995 Bor)
There are several references to film in:
● Chatman's Story and Discourse (NX650 Nar.C)
● Steven Cohan and Linda M. Shire's Telling Stories (PN3383 Nar.Co)
Also useful:
● Caughie, John. Theories of Authorship. London: Routledge, 1981. (PN1995.9 Pro.T)
● Kozloff, Sarah. Invisible Story-Tellers. Berkeley: U of California P, 1988. (PN1995 Koz)
Further readings & links:
Basic:
A
Basic Glossary of Film Terms
Cinema: How Are Hollywood
Films Made?:
Acting
Camera
Angles: Close-Ups and Long Shots
Editing
Film Editing
Glossary
Producing
Quiet on the
Set: Film Jargon
The Shoot:
Filming the Scene
Cinematic Terms A
Film-Making Glossary by Tim Dirks
Definitions of Some Key Terms in Film Studies compiled by Ryan Jerving.
Drew's Scripts-O-Rama Index
Film (Wikipedia)
Film Glossary
The Filmmaker As Historian by Rasmus Falbe-Hansen P.O.V. 16
(Dec 2003)
The First Fifty Years of
American Cinema by Vicki Botnick
Glossary
D. W.
Griffith's Birth of a Nation: Directing: The “Language” of the Cinema
(Sparknotes)
Hayao
Miyazaki's Spirited Away: The Death of an Art Form
Narrative film
Orson Welles'
Citizen Kane (Sparknotes):
Acting
The
Authorship Controversy
Filmic
Elements
Reading Films Critically
Storytelling and Film: Fairy Tales, Myth and Happy Endings by Brian
Dunnigan P.O.V. 18 (Dec 2004)
More advanced:
André
Bazin: Part 1, Film Style Theory in its Historical Context by Donato Totaro
Offscreen (31 July 2003)
André
Bazin: Part 2, Style as a Philosophical Idea by Donato Totaro
Offscreen (31 July 2003)
*‘Animated Icons’: Narrative and Liturgy in
The Passion of the Christ
by Graham Holderness Literature & Theology 19.4 (Nov 2004):
384-401.
'Benshi' silent film narrator a hit in Mexico by Nozomi Kobayashi The
Japan Times (13 Nov 2004)
Brakhage
and the Theory of Montage by Victor Grauer Millennium Film Journal
32/33 (Fall 1998)
Cinematic rhythms in the short fiction of Eudora Welty by Leslie A.
Kaplansky Studies in Short Fiction (Fall 1996)
Closing arias: Operatic montage in the closing sequences of the trilogies of
Coppola and Leone by Scott MacKenzie P.O.V. 6 (Dec 1998)
Constructivism in Cognitive Film Theory
The
Death And Rebirth Of Rhetoric by James Naremore Senses of Cinema
(2000)
A
Defense—and History—of Voice-Over Narration by Sarah Kozloff
A
Deleuzian Analysis of Tarkovsky’s Theory of Time-Pressure, Part 1:
Tarkovsky’s theory of time-pressure as ‘cine-physics’ by David
George Menard Offscreen (31 Aug 2003)
Deleuzian Film
Analysis: The Skin of the Film by Donato Totaro Offscreen (30
June 2002)
Distant Voices, Still Lives: Truly, Ironically, Tragically by Michael
Atkinson
Double
Exposure Charlie Chaplin as Author and Celebrity by Jonathan E. Goldman
M/C Journal 7.5 (Nov 2004)
Editing in the depth of the surface: A few basic principles of graphic
editing by Lars Bo Kimergård P.O.V. (Dec 1998)
Err, New
Boundaries for Fiction?! ER's 'Live' Episode by Felicity Meakins M/C
Journal 1.1 (July 1998)
Expanded Cinema and Narrative by Jackie Hatfield Millenium Film
Journal 39/40 (Winter 2003)
Eye,
gaze by Phil Lee (2003)
Film editing - a hidden art? by Vinca Wiedemann P.O.V. 6 (Dec
1998)
Five Parameters for Story Design in the Short Fiction Film by Richard
Raskin P.O.V. 5 (March 1998)
The
Functions of Film Music by Yair Oppenheim Film Score
Hitchcock's cinematic style: a study of Marion Crane's metaphorical journey
into darkness by Peder Grøngaard P.O.V. 4 (Dec 1997)
In the Ocean
of Streams of Story by Grahame Weinbren Millenium Film Journal 28
(Spring 1995)
A little Something
about dreams, memory, and the Movies by Emily-Jane Dawson (2002)
Metaphysics of the "long take": some post-Bazinian reflections by Mark
Le Fanu P.O.V. 4 (Dec 1997)
The moving image and its relations to the still picture (paintings, drawings
and photos) by Søren Kolstrup P.O.V. 3 (March 1997)
Multiple
Narrative Structures in Contemporary Cinema by Dan Hassler-Forest
Muriel:
Thinking With Cinema About Cinema by Donato Totaro Offscreen (31
July 2002)
The notion of editing by Søren Kolstrup P.O.V. 6 (Dec 1998)
Pickpocket [Robert Bresson]: A Statistical Analysis by Anna
Romatowska Offscreen (30 April 2004)
Reflections on the Pickpocket Statistical Analysis by Donato
Totaro Offscreen (30 April 2004)
Poetry on screen or visualised jokes? An approach to the genres of short
fiction films by Saara Cantell P.O.V. 18 (Dec 2004)
The Puppetmaster: A Bergsonian Personal Journey into History by
Donato Totaro Offscreen (14 March 1998)
Re-reading Bazin’s Ontological Argument by Prakash Younger Offscreen
(31 July 2003)
Screen
(1) by Doris Bravo (2003)
Screen (2) by Rachel Furnari (2002)
Separation or combination of fragments? Reflections on editing by Edvin
Kau P.O.V. (Dec 1998)
Some Aspects of Style and Space by Lennard Højbjerg P.O.V. 4 (Dec
1997)
Toward a Poetics of the Short Film by Johannes Riis P.O.V. 5
(March 1998)
Toward a synthesis of cinema - a theory of the long take moving camera, Part
1 by David George Menard Offscreen (31 Aug 2003)
What is Digital
Cinema? by Lev Manovich
Where's the story? Notes on telling stories cinematically by Edvin
Vestergaard Kau P.O.V. 18 (Dec 2004) |
