Introduction to Screen Narrative

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.

• IntroductionCatalina Iricinschi and Paul Taberham1. Dimensions of NarrativePaul TaberhamPART I: Convention, Deviation, Evolution2. Enjoying Classical Hollywood StorytellingTodd Berliner3. Independent CinemaGeoff King4. Interview: David Greenberg5. Complex Film Narratives: Diegetic Fictionalization in Christopher Nolan’s Fantastical Puzzle Film CycleMiklós KissPART II: Art Cinema6. Realism, Time and Ambiguity: Narration in Art CinemaPaul Taberham7. Interview: Ioana Uricaru8. Pseudo-Narration in Jean-Luc Godard’s Late FilmsAndrás Kovács9. Defining a Lynchian NarrativeNeil McCartneyPART III: Alternative Media10. Television Narrative: Forms, Strategies, and HistoriesSean O’Sullivan and Robyn Warhol11. The Way Toons Tell It: Animation’s Narrative StrategiesChristopher Holliday12. Interview: Josh Weinstein13. Video Game Narrative: Concepts and Practices for Structuring and Infusing Story in GamesDominic Arsenault14. Interview: Evan Skolnick15. Transmedia Storyworlds and Transmedia UniversesJan-Noël ThonPART IV: New Perspectives16. Two Philosophies of the ScreenplayEnrico Terrone17. The Absorbed Viewer’s ActivityEd Tan and Katalin Bálint18. The Cognition of Event Segmentation in Film Narrative: Segmenting, Parsing, and the Ensuing Narrative ComprehensionCatalina Iricinschi

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