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Narratology has become a widespread method of film analysis. Seymour Chatman's concept of the "cinematic narrator" contradicts David Bordwell's earlier contention.
Narratology has become a widespread method of film analysis. Seymour Chatman's concept of the "cinematic narrator" contradicts David Bordwell's earlier contention.
Narratology has become a widespread method of film analysis. Seymour Chatman's concept of the "cinematic narrator" contradicts David Bordwell's earlier contention.
Ever since Seymour Chatman proposed to analyze film with the help of narratological concepts (Chatman 1978),F 1 F narratology has become a widespread method of film analysis (see, e. g., Andringa et al. 2001; Bordwell 1985; Branigan 1984; Chatman 1990; Lothe 2000; Nadel 2005). Chatmans main contribution to the field of film narratology remains his concept of the cinematic narrator, which he defined as a non-human agent, the composite of a large and complex variety of communicating devices (Chatman 1990: 134). These include auditory (sound, voice, music) as well as visual channels, for instance lighting, mise-en-scne, camera distance, angle and movement, and editing (rhythm, cut etc). Chatman thereby contradicted David Bordwells earlier contention that film has narration but no narrator, and that notions of film narration