From Plato to Lumière
Subtitle: narration and monstration in literature and cinema
By: André Gaudreault ; translated by Timothy Barnard ; preface by Paul Ricoeur ; preface to the English-language edition by Tom Gunning.
Contributors: Barnard, Tim.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780802098856; 9780802095862
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Philosophy; Motion picture plays -- History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric)
Work titles: Du littéraire au filmique.
Notes: Translation of: Du littéraire au filmique.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Early cinema and narrativity; title: Narrative problems; title: In search of the first film narrative; title: Early narratology : mimesis and diegesis; title: Textual narrative and staged narrative; title: Narration and monstration; title: The narrator and the monstrator; title: Narration and monstration in the cinema; title: The film narrative system; title: The origins of the film narrator; title: Narrator(s); title: A monstrative entertainment, assisted by narration; title: Delegated film narrators.