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Revisions for Narration in Film (revised version; uploaded 22 April 2014)

Revision	Operations
12. May 2014 by Jan Horstmann	current revision
5. May 2014 by Wilhelm Schernus
24. April 2014 by Jan Horstmann
22. April 2014 by Jan Horstmann
4. July 2013 by Jan Horstmann

Definition
Explication
Development of Film Narration and History of the Study of Film Narration
Development of Film Narration
The Plurimedial Nature of Cinema
Technical Strategies of Storytelling
Narrative Modes in the History of Cinema
Editing as a Narrative Device
Time and Space in Cinema
Narrative Functions of Sound
The Narrating Agency in Cinema
Film as Sign System
The Act of Audiovisual Narration
Film Narration―Film Narrator
Unreliability of Film Narration
Point of View
Focalization and Ocularization
The Interplay between Audiovisual and Verbal Narration
Complex Forms of Narration in Contemporary Feature Films
Toward a Historical Film Narratology
Topics for Further Investigation
Bibliography
Works Cited
Further Reading

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