Narrated Films: Storytelling Situations in Cinema History

by Avrom Fleishman and Professor Avrom Fleishman

Book Overview

In Narrated Films, Avrom Fleishman explores the distinctive literary techniques often used by filmmakers to tell their stories. Through close viewings of ingeniously paired films, Fleishman documents five narrational practices in the cinema: voice-over (Orpheus and Sunset Boulevard); dramatized narration, in which the film is a story that one character tells another (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Hiroshima Mon Amour);...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801878659
• ISBN13: 9780801878657
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher