Invisible storytellers : voice-over narration in American fiction film /
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| Author / Creator: | Kozloff, Sarah |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c1988. |
| Description: | x, 167 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/921470 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Prejudices against Voice-Over Narration
- Images versus Words
- "Showing" versus "Telling"
- "A Literary Device"
- "Redundancy"
- "The Last Resort of the Incompetent"
- 2. Ancestors, Influences, and Development
- Lecturers and Intertitles in the Silent Era
- Radio
- Newsreels, Short Subjects, and Documentaries
- Fiction Films, 1930-1950
- Television and Postwar Documentaries
- Fiction Films, 1950 to the Present
- 3. First-Person Narrators
- Genette's Taxonomy of Narrators
- Who Really Narrates?
- The Circumstances of Narration
- Story and Discourse and How Green Was My Valley
- Foregrounding the Act of Storytelling and All About Eve
- 4. Third-Person Narrators
- Who Really Narrates?
- The Circumstances of Narration
- Omniscience
- Humanizing the "Voice of God" and The Naked City
- Gender
- 5. Irony in Voice-Over Films
- The Interplay between Narration and Scenic Presentation
- Voice-Over's Contribution to Cinematic Irony
- Ironic Narrators
- Unreliable Narrators
- The Question of Reliability in Barry Lyndon
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Filmography
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index