Eleftheria Thanouli

A Guide to Post-classical Narration (eBook, ePUB)

The Future of Film Storytelling

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In A Guide to Post-classical Narration, Eleftheria Thanouli expands and substantially develops the innovative theoretical work of her previous publication, Post-classical Cinema: an International Poetics of Film Narration (2009).

A Guide to Post-classical Narration: The Future of Film Storytelling presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the creative norms of the post-classical mode of narration. With dozens of cases studies and hundreds of color stills from films across the globe, this book provides the definitive account of post-classical storytelling and its techniques. After surfacing in auteur films in varied production milieus in the 1990s, the post-classical options continued to gain ground throughout the 2000s and 2010s, gradually fertilizing several mainstream productions in Hollywood. From Lars von Trier's Europa (1991) to Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead (2021) and Baz Luhrmann's Elvis (2022), the post-classical narration has shown not only impressive resilience but also tremendous creativity in transforming its key formal principles, such as fragmented and multi-thread plotlines, hypermediated realism, parody, graphic frame construction, complex chronology, and intense self-consciousness.

Through the meticulous textual analysis of the post-classical works, Eleftheria Thanouli addresses head-on a series of methodological questions in narrative research and brings the tradition of historical poetics back into the limelight. By reinforcing her previous work with numerous new films as well as more nuanced narrative terms and concepts, she not only strengthens her position on post-classical cinema but also establishes the relevance of formalist analysis in the study of film today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501393099
• Artikelnr.: 68873578

Autorenporträt

Eleftheria Thanouli is Professor in Film Theory at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and author of Post-classical Cinema: an International Poetics of Film Narration (2009), Wag the Dog: a Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2013) and History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Post-classical narrative logic
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Post-classical compositional motivation
1.3. Post-classical realistic motivation
1.4. Post-classical generic motivation
1.5. Post-classical artistic motivation
1.6. Conclusion
2. Post-classical space
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Intensified continuity
2.3. Graphic frame
2.4. Spatial montage
2.5. Conclusion
3. Post-classical time
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Mediated time
3.3. Complex chronology
3.4. Elastic duration
3.5. Conclusion
4. Post-classical narration
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Self-consciousness, knowledgeability, communicativeness
4.3. Levels of narration
4.4. Conclusion
5. The post-classical auteur: Quentin Tarantino
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Pulp Fiction (1994)
5.3. Kill Bill Vol. I (2003)
5.4. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
5.5. Once upon a time in Hollywood (2019)
5.6. Conclusion
Conclusion
References
Filmography
Appendix A: List of suggested post-classical films