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Mulvey, Laura. Visual and Other Pleasures. 2nd ed. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Quart, Barbara Koenig. Women Directors: The Emergence of a New
Cinema. New York: Praeger, 1988.
Sloan, Jane. Reel Women: An International Directory of
Contemporary Feature Films about Women.Lanham, Md.:
Scarecrow, 2007.


Chapter 4: Elements of Narrative


What Is Narrative?
Abbott, H. Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative.New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Beardsley, Monroe C. Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of
Criticism. 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981.
Bordwell, David. Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the
Interpretation of Cinema. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1989.
———. The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern
Movies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Branigan, Edward. Narrative Comprehension and Film. New York:
Routledge, 1992.
———. Point of View in the Cinema: A Theory of Narration and
Subjectivity in Classical Film.New York: Mouton, 1984.
Chatman, Seymour. Coming to Terms: The Rhetoric of Narrative in
Fiction and Film. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990.
———. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1978.
Chopra-Gant, Mike. Cinema and History: The Telling of Stories.
London: Wallflower, 2008.
Fabe, Marilyn. Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of
Narrative Film Technique. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2004.
Fell, John L. Film and the Narrative Tradition. Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 1974.
Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel.New York: Harcourt, Brace,
1927.
Kozloff, Sarah. Overhearing Film Dialogue. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2000.
Leitch, Thomas M. What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and
Interpretation. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1986.
Ryan, Marie-Laure, ed. Narrative across Media: The Languages of
Storytelling. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
Scholes, Robert, James Phelan, and Robert Kellogg. The Nature of
Narrative. Rev. and exp. ed. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2006.
Stam, Robert, Robert Burgoyne, and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis.
New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, Post-
Structuralism, and Beyond. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Thompson, Kristin. Storytelling in the New Hollywood:
Understanding Classical Narrative Technique. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.


The Screenwriter
Boozer, Jack, ed. Authorship in Film Adaptation. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 2008.
Desmond, John M., and Peter Hawkes. Adaptation: Studying Film
and Literature. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.


Elliott, Kamilla. Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Field, Syd. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. Rev. ed.
New York: Delta, 2005.
Gerstner, David A., and Janet Staiger, eds. Authorship and Film.
New York: Routledge, 2003.
Jacobs, Lea. The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman
Film, 1928–1942.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
McKee, Robert. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles
of Screenwriting. New York: ReganBooks, 1997.
Welsh, James M., and Peter Lev, eds. The Literature/Film Reader:
Issues of Adaptation. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2007.
Wexman, Virginia Wright, ed. Film and Authorship. New
Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Writers Guild of America. 101 Greatest Screenplays.www.wga.org/
subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1807.

Elements of Narrative
Armes, Roy. Action and Image: Dramatic Structure in Cinema.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994.
Ivarsson, Jan, and Mary Carroll. Subtitling. Sim rishamn, Sweden:
TransEdit, 1998.

Narration and Narrators
Bordwell, David. Narration in the Fiction FilmMadison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
Kawin, Bruce F. Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person
Film.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.

Looking at Narrative: John Ford’s Stagecoach
Buscombe, Edward. Stagecoach. London: BFI, 1992.
Nichols, Dudley. Stagecoach: A Film by John Ford and Dudley
Nichols. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971.

Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène
What Is Mise-en-Scène?: Background
and Theory
Andrew, Dudley, ed. The Image in Dispute: Art and Cinema in the
Age of Photography. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
Bazin, André. “The Virtues and Limitations of Montage.” In What
Is Cinema?Vol. 1. 41–52. Trans. Hugh Gray. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1967.
Bordwell, David. Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
———. On the History of Film Style. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1997.
———. “Widescreen Aesthetics and Mise en Scene Criticism.” The
Velvet Light Trapno. 21 (Summer 1985): 18–25.
Brewster, Ben, and Lea Jacobs. Theatre to Cinema: Stage
Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1997.
Brockett, Oscar G., and Robert R. Findlay. Century of Innovation:
A History of American and European Theatre and Drama since
the Late Nineteenth Century.2nd ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon,
1991.
Burch, Noël. Theory of Film Practice. Trans. Helen R. Lane.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

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