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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
31 May 1980-
About: The article was published on 1980-05-31 and is currently open access. It has received 1885 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative structure & Narrative criticism.
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01 Jan 2015
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TL;DR: The legacies of the French New Wave and the essay film have become mutually intertwined as mentioned in this paper, and they share the same historical moment and geographic space, as well as a common interest in exploring personal expression within cinematic signifying practices and advancing the aesthetic possibilities of the film form.
Abstract: The legacies of Left Bank Cinema and the essay film have become mutually intertwined. The former is a small but influential filmmaking movement in postwar France, primarily thought to consist of three friends, artists and filmmakers: Chris Marker, Alain Resnais and Agnes Varda, though Georges Franju is sometimes included in the coterie. 1 The group has significant overlap with the French New Wave in that both share the same historical moment and geographic space, as well as a common interest in exploring personal expression within cinematic signifying practices, and advancing the aesthetic possibilities of the film form. Ginette Vincendeau states that films directed by members of the French New Wave "lacked an interest in political or social issues, concentrating on personal angst among the (male) Parisian middle class (although an- other less media-prominent band of filmmakers known as the 'Left Bank' group…showed greater political awareness)" (110). Moreover, the New Wave filmmakers made almost exclusively fiction films, while the Left Bank group was also interested in documentary. The politically engaged, aesthetically bold documentary voiced with strong personal expression is how the essay film has come to be theorized. 2 Hence, many studies of the form consider the Left Bank group as most fully inaugurating the presently recognized dimensions of the essay film form. 3 Alexandre Astruc's 1948 manifesto, "The Birth of a New Avant- Garde: La Camera-Stylo," is frequently invoked as an influential article thought to anticipate and/or incite both Left Bank Cinema and the essay film. 4 Indeed, Resnais referred to his first film, Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (1946), now lost, as "the sort of thing (that was) later called 'camera-stylo'" (cited in Joram ten Brink, 236). With his notion of the camera as pen, As- truc expressed his desire for a cinematic mode of signifying thought and personal expression. Engagements with the essay film have utilized the camera-stylo as metaphor for a film form that articulates intelligence and an individual point of view, typically accomplished through voice-over. Timothy Corrigan argues that many engagements with the essay film
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01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors onderzoeked a nieuw begrip van specifieke kijkervaring en aantrekkingskracht van cinematische narratieve complexiteit in film.
Abstract: Vanaf de jaren negentig van de vorige eeuw is er een opvallende toename geweest van complexe verhaalvormen in populaire cinema en televisie. Films als Memento (2000), Mulholland Drive (2001), Enemy (2013) en Arrival (2016) populariseerden verhaalvormen gekenmerkt door non-lineariteit, fragmentatie, ambiguiteiten, logische tegenstrijdigheden en onbetrouwbare vertellers. Maar de aantrekkingskracht van dit soort verhaalstructuren is niet vanzelfsprekend; immers, een hoge mate van complexiteit kan de immersieve, communicatieve en mimetische functies die we normaliter aan verhalen toeschrijven in de weg staan. En waarom zouden kijkers plezier scheppen in een verhaal dat hen verwart? Dit onderzoek veronderstelt dat een adequaat begrip van narratieve complexiteit in film zich niet enkel dient te richten op het bestuderen van de verhaalstructuren zelf, maar ook op de cognitieve effecten en interpretatieve activiteit die hun formele-structurele experimenten veroorzaken en uitlokken. Door theorieen en perspectieven uit de filmwetenschap, narratieve theorie en cognitiewetenschappen te verbinden onderzoekt de studie hoe verschillende films complexiteit en verwarring creeren door strategisch in te spelen op de cognitieve processen en interpretatieve activiteit waarmee kijkers doorgaans verhalen begrijpen. Door te theoretiseren wat voor additioneel cognitief en interpretatief werk zulke films van hun kijkers vragen biedt het onderzoek een nieuw begrip van de specifieke kijkervaring en aantrekkingskracht van cinematische narratieve complexiteit en de manieren waarop diverse films en tradities zulke effecten hebben gebruikt.
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07 Feb 2021
TL;DR: In the process of adaptation, there are major changes in the process and the final project Changes in creative adaptation is natural as discussed by the authors, and many scholars consider creative adaptation as less than the source material meaning that a creative adaptation translates into inferior product.
Abstract: In the process of adaptation, there are major changes in the process and the final project Changes in creative adaptation is natural The novel adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen was published in 2017 based on the acclaimed 2015 musical with the same title Novels often adapted into films and musicals, but an adaptation from a Broadway musical into a novel is extremely rare Author Val Emmich worked with the creators of the musical to ensure a successful passing of essence from play to novel, ensuring the foundation of the creation of the musical which is the matter of anxiety disorders among teenagers to remain visible throughout the novel Many scholars consider creative adaptation as less than the source material meaning that a creative adaptation translates into inferior product This research scrutinized the process of creative adjustment in the novel through three distinct but interrelated perspectives based on the theory of adaptation by Linda Hutcheon: adaptation as a formal entity or product, adaptation as a process of creation , and adaptation as a process of reception This research concludes that the novel adaptation transforms, deepens, and compliments the musical and its existence is justified as it contains intertextual significance
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: Thesis (M.S. as mentioned in this paper, M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Abstract: Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993.
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