Film narratology - Verstraten, Peter (University of Toronto Press, 2009)
Is cinema essential narrative? -- Basic principles of narratology -- The narrative impact of the mise en scène -- The narrative impact of cinematography -- Story and fabula disconnected through editing -- The visual narrator and visual focalization -- Tension between the visual and auditive narrators -- Sound as a narrative force -- The narrative principles of genres -- Filmic excess : when style drowns the plot -- Appendix : The virgin suicides as a test case
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and index
In Film Narratology, Peter W.J. Verstraten makes film narratives his primary focus, while noting the unexplored and essentially different narrative effects that film can produce with mise-en-scCne, cinematography, and editing