Invisible Storytellers

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Contents: Acknowledgments = ix Introduction = 1 The Prejudices against Voice-Over Narration = 8 Images versus Words = 8 "Showing" versus "Telling" = 12 "A Literary Device" = 17 "Redundancy" = 19 "The Last Resort of the Incompetent" = 21 Ancestors, Influences, and Development = 23 Lecturers and Intertitles in the Silent Era = 23 Radio = 26 Newsreels, Short Subjects, and Documentaries = 28 Fiction Films, 1930-1950 = 31 Television and Postwar Documentaries = 35 Fiction Films, 1950 to the Present p. 37 First-Person Narrators = 41 Genette's Taxonomy of Narrators = 42 Who Really Narrates? = 43 The Circumstances of Narration = 49 Story and Discourse and How Green Was My Valley = 53 Foregrounding the Act of Storytelling and All About Eve = 62 Third-Person Narrators = 72 Who Really Narrates? = 74 The Circumstances of Narration = 76 Omniscience = 79 Humanizing the "Voice of God" and The Naked City = 82 Gender = 99 Irony in Voice-Over Films = 102 The Interplay between Narration and Scenic Presentation = 102 Voice-Over's Contribution to Cinematic Irony = 109 Ironic Narrators = 111 Unreliable Narrators = 112 The Question of Reliability in Barry Lyndon = 117 Conclusion = 127 Notes = 131 Filmography = 141 Bibliography of Works Cited = 155 Index = 161

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