Narration in the Fiction Film

Preface = ix Introduction = xi PART ONE: Some Theories of Narration = 1 1. Mimetic Theories of Narration = 3 Perspective as Narration = 4 Perspective and Point of View in Literature = 7 The Invisible Observer = 9 Eisenstein: Narration as Scenography = 12 2. Diegetic Theories of Narration = 16 Film Narration as Metalanguage = 18 Film Narration as Enunciation = 21 PART TWO: Narration and Film Form = 27 3. The Viewer’s Activity = 29 A Sketch for a Psychology of Filmic Perception and Cognition = 30 Narrative Comprehension = 33 Believing and Seeing = 40 4. Principles of Narration = 48 Fabula, Syuzhet, and Style = 49 Tactics of Syuzhet Construction = 54 Knowledge, Self-Consciousness, and Communicativeness = 57 Narrator, Author = 61 5. Sin, Murder, and Narration = 63 The Detective Film = 64 The Melodrama = 70 6. Narration and Time = 74 Features of Temporal Construction = 77 Temporal Stratagems and Spoils = 88 7. Narration and Space = 99 Constructing Space = 100 Perspective and the Spectator = 104 Ideal Positionality: Shot/reverse Shot = 110 Cues, Features, and Functions = 113 Space in The Confrontation = 130 PART THREE: Historical Modes of Narration = 147 8. Modes and Norms = 149 9. Classical Narration: The Hollywood Example = 156 Canonic Narration = 157 Classical Style = 162 The Classical Spectator = 164 Seven Films, Eight Segments = 166 10. Art-Cinema Narration = 205 Objectivity, Subjectivity, Authority = 206 The Game of Form = 213 The Art Cinema in History = 228 11. Historical-Materialist Narration: The Soviet Example = 234 Narration as Rhetoric = 235 Predictable Fabula, Unpredictable Narration = 241 The New Babylon = 249 Toward an Interrogative Cinema = 268 12. Parametric Narration = 274 A New Role for Style = 275 Shapes and Strategies = 280 The Parameters of Pickpocket = 289 The Problem of Modernism = 310 13. Godard and Narration = 311 Schemata in Conflict = 313 Spatializing Narration = 317 Narrator and Palimpsest = 322 1968 and After = 332 Conclusion = 335 Notes = 339 Photo Credits = 358 Selected Bibliography = 359 Index = 362

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