Introduction to Screen Narrative
Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension
1st Edition
Published on 29. August 2023
322 pages
978-1-000-93056-6 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work. Exploring a variety of mediums including feature films, television, animation, and video games, the volume provides a contextual overview of the form and applies this to the practice of screenwriting.
Featuring over 20 contributions, the volume surveys the art of screen narrative, and allows students and screenwriters to draw on crucial insights to further improve their screenwriting craft. Editors Paul Taberham and Catalina Iricinschi have curated a volume that spans a range of disciplines including screenwriting, film theory, philosophy and psychology with experience and expertise in storytelling, modern blockbusters, puzzle films and art cinema. Screenwriters interviewed include: Josh Weinstein (The Simpsons, Gravity Falls), David Greenberg (Stomping Ground, Used to Love Her), Evan Skolnick and Ioana Uricaru.
Ideal for students of Screenwriting and Screen Narrative as well as aspiring screenwriters wanting to provide theoretical context to their craft.
Featuring over 20 contributions, the volume surveys the art of screen narrative, and allows students and screenwriters to draw on crucial insights to further improve their screenwriting craft. Editors Paul Taberham and Catalina Iricinschi have curated a volume that spans a range of disciplines including screenwriting, film theory, philosophy and psychology with experience and expertise in storytelling, modern blockbusters, puzzle films and art cinema. Screenwriters interviewed include: Josh Weinstein (The Simpsons, Gravity Falls), David Greenberg (Stomping Ground, Used to Love Her), Evan Skolnick and Ioana Uricaru.
Ideal for students of Screenwriting and Screen Narrative as well as aspiring screenwriters wanting to provide theoretical context to their craft.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-000-93056-6 (9781000930566)
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Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension
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Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension
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1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Paul Taberham is Associate Professor in Film and Animation Studies at the Arts University Bournemouth, UK. He is the author of Lessons in Perception: The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist (Berghahn, 2018) and the forthcoming Animated Visions: Theory, History and Aesthetics (Berghahn, 2024). He is also the co-editor of Cognitive Media Theory (Routledge, 2014) with Ted Nannicelli, and Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital (Routledge, 2019) with Miriam Harris and Lilly Husbands. Paul is a fellow of the Society of Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, and on the editorial board for Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Catalina Iricinschi is Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Franklin & Marshall College. Research interests include event segmentation in film narrative, eye tracking in narrative processing, narrative of belonging and displacement, place and space depiction in film narrative, and Romanian cinema. She has published in journals such as Cognitive Science, Projections: The Journal for Movie and Mind, I-Perception, along with the edited anthologies Space in Language and the forthcoming Narrative, Media and Cognition.
Catalina Iricinschi is Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Franklin & Marshall College. Research interests include event segmentation in film narrative, eye tracking in narrative processing, narrative of belonging and displacement, place and space depiction in film narrative, and Romanian cinema. She has published in journals such as Cognitive Science, Projections: The Journal for Movie and Mind, I-Perception, along with the edited anthologies Space in Language and the forthcoming Narrative, Media and Cognition.
Content
Introduction
Catalina Iricinschi and Paul Taberham1. Dimensions of Narrative
Paul TaberhamPART I: Convention, Deviation, Evolution2. Enjoying Classical Hollywood Storytelling
Todd Berliner3. Independent Cinema
Geoff King4. Interview: David Greenberg
5. Complex Film Narratives: Diegetic Fictionalization in Christopher Nolan's Fantastical Puzzle Film Cycle
Miklos KissPART II: Art Cinema6. Realism, Time and Ambiguity: Narration in Art Cinema
Paul Taberham7. Interview: Ioana Uricaru
8. Pseudo-Narration in Jean-Luc Godard's Late Films
Andras Kovacs
9. Defining a Lynchian Narrative
Neil McCartneyPART III: Alternative Media10. Television Narrative: Forms, Strategies, and Histories
Sean O'Sullivan and Robyn Warhol11. The Way Toons Tell It: Animation's Narrative Strategies
Christopher Holliday12. Interview: Josh Weinstein
13. Video Game Narrative: Concepts and Practices for Structuring and Infusing Story in Games
Dominic Arsenault14. Interview: Evan Skolnick
15. Transmedia Storyworlds and Transmedia Universes
Jan-Noel ThonPART IV: New Perspectives16. Two Philosophies of the Screenplay
Enrico Terrone17. The Absorbed Viewer's Activity
Ed Tan and Katalin Balint18. The Cognition of Event Segmentation in Film Narrative: Segmenting, Parsing, and the Ensuing Narrative Comprehension
Catalina Iricinschi
Catalina Iricinschi and Paul Taberham1. Dimensions of Narrative
Paul TaberhamPART I: Convention, Deviation, Evolution2. Enjoying Classical Hollywood Storytelling
Todd Berliner3. Independent Cinema
Geoff King4. Interview: David Greenberg
5. Complex Film Narratives: Diegetic Fictionalization in Christopher Nolan's Fantastical Puzzle Film Cycle
Miklos KissPART II: Art Cinema6. Realism, Time and Ambiguity: Narration in Art Cinema
Paul Taberham7. Interview: Ioana Uricaru
8. Pseudo-Narration in Jean-Luc Godard's Late Films
Andras Kovacs
9. Defining a Lynchian Narrative
Neil McCartneyPART III: Alternative Media10. Television Narrative: Forms, Strategies, and Histories
Sean O'Sullivan and Robyn Warhol11. The Way Toons Tell It: Animation's Narrative Strategies
Christopher Holliday12. Interview: Josh Weinstein
13. Video Game Narrative: Concepts and Practices for Structuring and Infusing Story in Games
Dominic Arsenault14. Interview: Evan Skolnick
15. Transmedia Storyworlds and Transmedia Universes
Jan-Noel ThonPART IV: New Perspectives16. Two Philosophies of the Screenplay
Enrico Terrone17. The Absorbed Viewer's Activity
Ed Tan and Katalin Balint18. The Cognition of Event Segmentation in Film Narrative: Segmenting, Parsing, and the Ensuing Narrative Comprehension
Catalina Iricinschi
