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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442688148

Content: With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust, From Plato to Lumière challenges narratological orthodoxy by positing that all forms of narrative are mediated by an "underlying narrator" who exists between the author and narrative text. Offering illuminating insights, definitions, and formal distinctions, Gaudreault examines the practices of novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers and applies his theory to the early cinema of the Lumière brothers and more recent films. He also enhances our understanding of how narrative develops visually without language - monstration - by detailing how the evolution of the medium influenced narratives in cinema. From Plato to Lumière includes a translation of Paul Ricoeur's preface to the French-language edition as well as a new preface by Tom Gunning. It is a must-read for cinema and media students and scholars and an essential text on the study of narrative.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Preface -- , Preface to the English-language edition / , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1. Early Cinema and Narrativity -- , 2. Narrative Problems -- , 3. In Search of the First Film Narrative -- , 4. Early Narratology: Mimesis and Diegesis -- , 5. Textual Narrative and Staged Narrative -- , 6. Narration and Monstration -- , 7. The Narrator and the Monstrator -- , 8. Narration and Monstration in the Cinema -- , 9. The Film Narrative System -- , 10. The Origins of the Film Narrator -- , 11. Narrator(s) -- , 12. A Monstrative Entertainment, Assisted by Narration -- , 13. Delegated Film Narrators -- , Conclusion -- , Afterword (1998): Cinema, Between Literariness and Intermediality -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442688148

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442688148

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442688148

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Format: 1 online resource (259 p.)

ISBN: 1-4426-9308-8 , 1-4426-8814-9

Uniform Title: Du littéraire au filmique.

Content: With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, Andre Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time.

Note: Translation of: Du litteraire au filmique. , Early cinema and narrativity -- Narrative problems -- In search of the first film narrative -- Early narratology : mimesis and diegesis -- Textual narrative and staged narrative -- Narration and monstration -- The narrator and the monstrator -- Narration and monstration in the cinema -- The film narrative system -- The origins of the film narrator -- Narrator(s) -- A monstrative entertainment, assisted by narration -- Delegated film narrators. , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8020-9586-0

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8020-9885-1

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442688148