Invisible storytellers : voice-over narration in American fiction film / Sarah Kozloff.
""Let me tell you a story, "" each film seems to offer silently as its opening frames hit the screen. But sometimes the film finds a voice-an off-screen narrator-for all or part of the story. From Wuthering Heights and Double Indemnity to Annie Hall and Platoon, voice-over narrat...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; 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 ValleyForegrounding 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T.
- UV; W; Y; Z.