<p>Enhance your appreciation of the movies you watch.Written for the intellectually curious film viewer, "How Films Tell Stories" presents a concise and engaging introduction to the narrative strategies of cinema. Learn about the fundamental elements of a story such as plot structure, character, and fictional worlds, and how a story is communicated through the medium of film using time manipulation, perspective, cinematography, editing, and sound. A supplemental website provides video links to many of the film scenes discussed in the book.</p>

How Films Tell Stories: The Narratology of Cinema

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Brown, Larry A.

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Creative Arts Press

<p>Enhance your appreciation of the movies you watch.\nWritten for the intellectually curious film viewer, How Films Tell Stories presents a concise introduction to narrative film theory in an easy-to-read style. Part one discusses the basic elements of story -- plot, character, and fictional world -- as applied to cinema. Part two explores how these elements are communicated, examining time manipulation, perspective, cinematography, editing, and sound.\nNarrative concepts are explained using over 200 film examples from Hollywood classics to contemporary blockbusters. A companion website provides links to many of the scenes mentioned in the book. Each chapter concludes with questions encouraging readers to produce their own analysis of the narrative strategies of films.</p>

How Films Tell Stories: the Narratology of Cinema

Sienna Bay Press

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How Films Tell Stories: The Narratology of Cinema

How Films Tell Stories: the Narratology of Cinema