Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling

From mainstream blockbusters to art house cinema, narrative and narration are the driving forces that organize a...
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Author: Warren Buckland
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Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling by Buckland, Warren

Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling

$83.05

Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling

$83.05
Author: Warren Buckland
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Warren Buckland
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 12/15/2020
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780231181433

About the Author
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).

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