Narration in the Fiction Film

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Summary: Delicious Film Theory
Review: As most films, like most novels, have some sort of narration flowing through them, David Bordwell's "Narration in Fiction Film" is a very useful and important book in the world of film theory. Laying out the different styles of narration into a few distinct categories and using a few films as examples by analyzing them in great depth (including Rear Window and Pickpocket), Bordwell takes a very deliberate and methodical approach to the delineation and understanding of films. The language he uses, such as the terms "syuzhet" and "fabula" to refer to different aspects of the plot, are difficult to comprehend at first but once learned provide a welcome ticket into the captivating world of film.