The Narrativity of Cinema

FAIN: FS-*0006-78

University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA 52242-1320)
Dudley Andrew (Project Director: May 1977 to October 1990)

Seminar to catalog in a systematic, or structural, way the variable of all story telling activities, and then apply this catalog to both classic and modernist films. The short comings of this "object-centered" approach will lead to a general psychology of the film experience as an interaction between the spectator and the narrative machine of the film.