3. Three Dimensions of Film Narrative - David Bordwell

Dimensions of Film NarrativeA man sitting in a bar suddenly shouted, All lawyers are assholes! The customer next to him jumped off his stool. Those are fighting words! Oh, so you re a lawyer? No, I m an asshole. The study of Narrative has a long history, but as a self-conscious body of inquiry, this enterprise is principally a creature of the 20th century. It was then that it came to be called narratology, an ugly term but one that apparently we can t easily do we call it, the study of Narrative is very important. Storytelling is a perva-sive phenomenon. It seems that no culture or society is without its myths, folktales, and sacred legends.

Three Dimensions of Film Narrative ... as other media, a vehicle for some but not all more fundamental narrative capacities, then we might not expect to find exact parallels between literary devices and filmic ones. Dif-ferent media might activate distinct domains of storytelling. Perhaps, that is, filmic point

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