num_pages: 264
description: 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 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 ); multiple narration, in which a number of characters tell the story that is the film ( Rashomon and Zelig ); written narration, whether through diaries or letters ( Letter from an Unknown Woman and Diary of a Country Priest ); and the cinematic version of interior monologue, which Fleishman terms mindscreen narration ( Brief Encounter and Daybreak ).
language: English
title: Narrated Films: Storytelling Situations in Cinema History
titlecomplete: Narrated Films: Storytelling Situations in Cinema History
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press