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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 cinema: 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…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
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 cinema: 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").
Autorenporträt
Avrom Fleishman is a retired professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University and is the author of numerous books, including The English Historical Novel: Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf: A Critical Reading (both available from Johns Hopkins), The Condition of English, and New Class Culture.