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Narrative in Fiction and Film: An Introduction
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Narrative in Fiction and Film gives a clear presentation of key concepts of narrative theory. A growing field in the humanities, narrative theory (or 'narratology') studies such narratives, thus discussing central questions concerning human communication. This introductory book has a two-part structure: Part I presents key concepts of narrative theory - for example, author, narrator, time, perspective, event, characterization. The discussion is oriented towards narrative fiction and centred on literary texts, yet since film can also have an important narrative dimension, the film aspect is brought into each chapter. Part II analyses five prose texts: the parable of the sower in St. Mark's Gospel, Franz Kafka's The Trial, James Joyce's 'The Dead', Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Part II also discusses film versions of four of these texts: Orson Welles's The Trial, John Huston's The Dead, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, and Colin Gregg's To the Lighthouse. The book brings together and lucidly presents concepts and theories in narrative theory, and illustrates and tests theses theories. It will be an invaluable text for undergraduates studying narrative theory as part of a literature or film studies course.
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What is cinematic storytelling? How can we understand its technique and complexities? What are its extents and limitations? In this monumental work, David Bordwell catalogues every aspect of film narrative, offering insight into an amazing variety of fiction films. The author, who is as comfortable talking about Al Jolson movies as he is describing the career of Jean-Luc Godard, has made a major contribution to film studies and the field of narrative theory.
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Delicious Film Theory.......2000-05-02
As most films, like most novels, have some sort of narration flowing through them, David Bordwell's "Narration in Fiction Film" is a very useful and important book in the world of film theory. Laying out the different styles of narration into a few distinct categories and using a few films as examples by analyzing them in great depth (including Rear Window and Pickpocket), Bordwell takes a very deliberate and methodical approach to the delineation and understanding of films. The language he uses, such as the terms "syuzhet" and "fabula" to refer to different aspects of the plot, are difficult to comprehend at first but once learned provide a welcome ticket into the captivating world of film.
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"Let me tell you a story," each film seems to offer silently as its opening frames hit the screen. But sometimes the film finds a voice--an off-screen narrator--for all or part of the story. From Wuthering Heights and Double Indemnity to Annie Hall and Platoon, voice-over narration has been an integral part of American movies.
Through examples from films such as How Green Was My Valley, All About Eve, The Naked City, and Barry Lyndon, Sarah Kozloff examines and analyzes voice-over narration. She refutes the assumptions that words should only play a minimal role in film, that "showing" is superior to "telling," or that the technique is inescapably authoritarian (the "voice of god"). She questions the common conception that voice-over is a literary technique by tracing its origins in the silent era and by highlighting the influence of radio, documentaries, and television. She explores how first-person or third-person narration really affects a film, in terms of genre conventions, viewer identification, time and nostalgia, subjectivity, and reliability. In conclusion she argues that voice-over increases film's potential for intimacy and sophisticated irony.
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Rhetoric and Narrative.......2002-02-24
Chatman's book has been around for a while, but it is still probably the best summary of structuralist narrative theory out there. Chatman makes the very important connection beetween narrative theory and its rhetorical effects on audience. His treatment of the construction of time in narrative summarizes several other prominent narrative theorists, but his terminology is perhaps the most useful. His clear presentation of the distinction between "story" and "discourse" (often called "l'histoire" and "recit" after Genette) and the linking of discourse to rhetorical theory is perhaps the book's most useful feature. Chatman, whose early works included a treatise on poetic meter, is known primarily as a film theorist, but his work analyzes narrative in many media and in many forms. I have used this book as an introduction to narrative theory in my classes.
Useful for analyzing written and film narratives.......2000-10-14
This book offers, for me, the most understandable model of a narrative I've read so far. Chatman offers helpful concepts for analyzing both written and film narratives. He tries to create a synthesis of all narrative theory before his book, and he does a very good job. Instead of getting lost in a collection of different approaches, you actually find yourself connecting them all, seeing where they fit together.
Among all the books on narratology and narrative analysis I've read, this is the one most helpful not only for analyzing film narratives but also written narratives (although I would always recommend you also read "Narratology: An Introduction", "Narrative Fiction" and perhaps Bordwell and Thompson's " Film Art : An Introduction", if you want to focus especially on films).
This book and the way Chatman dissects the narrative are also interesting for people more interested in writing than in analysis: I believe the parts Chatman splits the narrative into resemble very closely those writers use in putting one together. So this book may actually help writers gain new insights into what they are doing instinctively.
First and foremost, however, it is a very useful book for the student and scholar of literature.
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Narrative models applied to works in time. .......2006-01-29
Chatman walks the reader through different narrative models, looking for one which applies to both novels and cinema. He builds on the work of scholars such as Bordwell and Booth to reach his conclusions.
The book is broken into three rough sections. The first four chapters consider the relationship of narrative to other kinds of discourse. For instance, he explores how a text-type such as description fits into the narrative framework.
The second section of the book addresses narrative formulations internal to either cinema or novels. I found this personally the most useful section. I particularly liked the distinction that he made between an unreliable narrator and a fallable filter.
Finally, in the last chapter, Chatman moves towards synthesis and builds his conclusions by attempting to redefine the Booth notion of a rhetoric of fiction.
I found as a reader that I was well-enough versed with film theory to follow most of the book. I have not read as completely in Narratology (rhetoric) as I should have to really get the most out of it. While I understand that he would rather have had people rent the films than print stills, it was a little frustrating to find references to long out-of-print advertisements and not be able to visualize what was meant.
Chatman is a Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley.
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LA Narracion En El Cine De Ficcion / Narration in the Fiction Film (Comunicacion Cine / Communication Cinema)
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Describing in detail precise differences between the psychological experience of reading a novel and watching a movie, Make Believe in Film and Fiction shows how movies' unique magnification of movements produces stories especially potent in exposing hypocrisy, the spread of criminality in contemporary society, and the relation of private experience to the natural environment. By contrasts of novels with visual storytelling the book also displays how fiction facilitates sharing of subjective fantasies, frees the mind from limiting spatial and temporal preconceptions, and dramatizes the ethical significance of even trivial and commonplace behavior, while intensifying readers' awareness of how they think and feel.
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Ever noticed that many of the world's most influential drummers have a deep understanding of music and also know how to play another instrument? Modern Drummer founder and publisher Ron Spagnardi has, and with this new book/CD pack, he sets out to teach drummers the essentials of theory and harmony using a keyboard. He covers: major scales; basic chord structure; inversions; diatonic harmony; chord voicings, extensions and progressions; and more vital topics.
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Cut this book into 160 pieces, glue them together, and have a paper clock operated by weights that keeps perfect time and can be rewound and regulated.
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A great craft.......2007-03-16
Okay, first and foremost I love making 3d models out of paper, papercraft is one of my most beloved hobbies. With that said this is a great template to create an amazing working paper clock. It is challenging only in the fact that you must be accurate and cannot cut or fold slopply and get away with it. I had to make the main gear and two of the other sub gears several times before I could get the clock to work. It is a challange and it will take about a week to build if you work dilligently every night for about 1-2 hours. I enjoyed building it as much as I enjoy looking at it now. I have bought several copies of the book and recommend it to anyone who is interested in a good project that leaves you with an amazing piece of art when you are done. A definate conversation piece.
Tick tock.......2007-02-11
We built this clock in the late seventies. I have two copies now on my shelf waiting for some volunteer to scan it. I'm sure Gutenberg could find a place for it . We hardened some of the gears with coats of thinned Elmers glue. I think we made the weights and later borrowed the weights from a Cuckoo clock. The pendulum was a coat hanger. We gave it a little more clearance from the wall by making it a little wooden plaque.It hung in the same room as an English case clock from the 1700's and a cuckoo clock from Heidleberg. It ran (when wound) for about five years. It shared a column with two painted fish cookies from Chinatown (also hardened with Elmer's) As I remember they all finally succumbed to a combination of dogs and mildew.
Getting it to work is great! keeping it working is astounding!.......2006-12-07
When I was on a Submarine while in the US Navy I built one. It worked for about twenty minutes. Then everybody and their brother took a shot at fixing that !@#$%^ paper clock in the crew's lounge. There were Nuclear Machinist Mates, Radio and Radar Technicians, Torpedomen, and even the Cooks took a shot. The Officers pretended to think it was beneath them until sombody saw the Engineer fiddling with it. Then the whole crew played with it. It was a great group project. A real camraderie builder. After a month or so of tinkering we ran the damn thing through the shredder. It was a totally fun project and watching know-it-alls fail to fix it was priceless.
There really is a secret to getting it to work that I know and will share if you e-mail me. my third one worked good. Here is a hint Measure Measure Mesure Measure Measure Mesure Measure Measure Mesure Measure Measure Mesure Measure Measure Mesure Measure Measure Mesure Measure Measure Mesure, RTFIx2, and NEVER ASSUME!
Frustration and depression.......2006-08-05
Of the 17 reviews here, only three claim to have got the clock to work. I'm surprised there are any at all. I got as far as the escapement, but no amount of twiddling and adjusting would get it to work properly. Isaac Asimov in the Introduction recommends buying two copies, so that you can learn from your mistakes, but I don't see how that would help, since I already had cut and assembled as painstakingly as I am capable. I think the source of my problems may have been the gluing, which warped some of the parts. But I don't see any way of avoiding this: the parts have protrusions which prevent them being squashed between heavy books as they dry. Perhaps using a different glue? By the time I realized that it was never going to work, I had already spent so many hours working at it that the frustration led to depression.
Educational if not functional.......2006-01-03
My husband and I just finished a New Year's weekend marathon of clockmaking.
I got this book years ago, attempted it once and bailed out at piece 57 or so. This time he and I finished it together (Having another person I think is VERY helpful so you can keep each other motivated.)
There are several typos in the book as mentioned above and as one of the other reviewers mentioned, the instructions for the last sections -- for constructing the minute and hour hand pieces and the final assembly are sketchy at best. Consulting the drawings can be helpful, but I have to say it also just makes you figure out for yourself how the thing ought to work -- then you put it together accordingly.
Our hands and backs are aching, but it's put together and we're still together. We still have to adjust the pendulum fork and also the escapement wheel, but after 18 hours, we're ready to look at it as a lovely objet d'art, not a timekeeper.
I don't think we'd do it again -- that would be my third go and his second -- but it was very cool to do it once.
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