Broken taboos, subjective truths: forms and functions of unreliable narration in contemporary American Cinema ; a contribution to film narratology
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Autor: Laass, Eva
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CONTENTS
Preface and acknowledgements VII
I. Introduction 1
1. Central questions and aims of the study 1
2. Overview of current research 4
3. Theoretical framework and structure 6
II. The Distinctiveness of the Medium:
Characteristics of Unreliable Filmic Narration 13
1. Key concepts of a cognitively oriented film narratology 13
1.1 Story, plot, text in filmic narration 13
1.2 Frames and framings 16
1.3 The problem of narrative agency 19
2. Definition of unreliable narration 25
2.1 Cognitive narratological conceptualisation of unreliable narration 25
2.2 Normative vs. factual unreliability x 30
2.3 Extratextual frames of reference and textual signals for the establishment
of unreliable narration 32
2.4 The default: Norms and taboos of narrative representations
in Hollywood cinema 34
3. Unreliable narration on the level of the narrative microstructure (text):
The filmic communication system 43
3.1 The level of action (NL1) 45
3.1.1 Dialogue-derived narrative information 45
3.1.2 Character and characterisation in the context of narrative unreliability 48
3.2 The level of explicit narrative communication (NL2) 51
3.2.1 Voice-over narration 52
3.2.2 Signals of unreliable explicit narration 54
3.3 The level of implicit narrative communication (NL3) 60
3.3.1 Non-verbal narrative information and its dependability 60
3.3.2 Techniques of focalisation: Objectivity und subjectivity in film 62
3.3.3 Signals of unreliable implicit narration 67
3.4 The level of extratextual, indirect, non-fictional communication (NL4) 75
4. Unreliable narration on the level of the narrative macrostructure (plot) 80
4.1 Perspective structure, or: An ensemble of fictional minds 80
4.2 Possible worlds as mental products and their narrative (un)reliability 82
5. Conclusion: Towards a typology of unreliable filmic narration 88
III. Forms of Unreliable Narration in Contemporary American Cinema 90
1. Normatively unreliable explicit narration 90
1.1 What is right? Hierarchy negotiations in the American value system I:
The victory of innocence over intelligence in Forrest Gump (1994) 90
1.2 What is wrong? Hierarchy negotiations in the American value system II:
The victory of rhetoric over righteousness in Thank You for Smoking (2005) 104
2. Normatively unreliable implicit narration 119
2.1 What is cool? Satirical treatment of the medial presentation of violence in
Natural Born Killers (1994) 119
3. Factually unreliable explicit narration 136
3.1 Does the camera show The Truth? The camera as the murderer s accomplice:
Departing from the veracity of filmic pictures in The Usual Suspects (1995) 136
3.2 What is The Truth? The narrative staging of subjective reality loss in
Fight Club (1999) 150
4. Factually unreliable implicit narration 166
4.1 Is there a Truth? Misleading the viewer s moral judgement and
epistemological indeterminacy in Memento (2000) 166
4.2 Is there a story? Breaking with the concept of realist worlds in Mulholland
Drive (2001) 181
5. Conclusion: Varieties of narrative unreliability in film 196
IV. Why Movies Matter: The Social Dimension of Unreliable Filmic
Narration 198
1. The generic and historical dimensions of unreliable narration in
American cinema 199
2. Potential social functions of unreliable cinematic narration 211
2.1 Sociopolitical contextualisation of the subject 211
2.2 The functions of movies 213
2.3 Models of the social functions of literary texts and their
transmedial applicability 216
2.4 Unreliable narration as culture-critical meta-discourse 224
2.5 Unreliable narration as imaginative counter-discourse 230
2.6 Unreliable narration as reintegrative inter-discourse 237
V. Conclusion 240
Appendix: Sequence records 251
Filmography 276
Bibliography 284
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