Invisible Storytellers : Voice-Over Narration in American Fiction Film.
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 voicean off-screen narratorfor all or part of the story. From Wuthering Heights and Double Indemnity to Annie Hall and Platoon, voice-over narration has been an integral pa...
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1989.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Prejudices against Voice-Over Narration; 2 Ancestors, Influences, and Development; 3 First-Person Narrators; 4 Third-Person Narrators; 5 Irony in Voice-Over Films; Conclusion; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index.