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Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling

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Availability:In StockContributor:Warren BucklandSeries:Short CutsPublish date:2020-12-15Pages:152
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wallflower PressISBN-13:9780231181433ISBN-10:231181434UPC:9780231181433Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Film, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCZ4W3PW75

From mainstream blockbusters to art house cinema, narrative and narration are the driving forces that organize a film. Yet attempts to explain these forces are often mired in notoriously complex terminology and dense theory. Warren Buckland provides a clear and accessible introduction that explains how narrative and narration work using straightforward language.

Narrative and Narration distills the basic components of cinematic storytelling into a set of core concepts: narrative structure, processes of narration, and narrative agents. The book opens with a discussion of the emergence of narrative and narration in early cinema and proceeds to illustrate key ideas through numerous case studies. Each chapter guides readers through different methods that they can use to analyze cinematic storytelling. Buckland also discusses how departures from traditional modes, such as feminist narratives, art cinema, and unreliable narrators, can complicate and corroborate the book's understanding of narrative and narration. Examples include mainstream films, both classic and contemporary; art house films of every stripe; and two relatively new styles of cinematic storytelling: the puzzle film and those driven by a narrative logic derived from video games. Narrative and Narration is a concise introduction that provides readers with fundamental tools to understand cinematic storytelling.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wallflower PressISBN-13:9780231181433ISBN-10:231181434UPC:9780231181433Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Film, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCZ4W3PW75
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).
Publisher: Wallflower Press

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