Cinematic Narratology 

Second Semester (Four Points) 

Dr. HAIM CALEV

Introductory study of issues in cinematic narration: tensions between theme, ideology and plot and their resotution through uniquely cinematic strategies; problems in the cinematic representation of characters' thoughts and emotions; selection of visually effective situations in constructing scenes; determining succesion between scenes and distribution of screen time in a film's total structure; patterns designed to create artistic unity and integration; using cinematic continuity in building narrative gaps, inviting viewers' participation and creating dramatic irony.

Students duties

1. Participation in lectures, class sessions and film screenings.

2. Special assignments in reading selected bibliography toward class sessions.

3. Midterm paper: close examination of the narrative strategy in a film and its thematic functioning.

4. Final exam including special section on selected bibliogrphy.

Bibliography (in English)

David Bordwell. Narration in the Fiction Film, Madison: The Univer.of Wisconsin Press, 1985

David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction New York : McGraw Hill, 1997

David Bordwell. On the History of Film Style, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997

Edward Branigan. Narrative Comprehension and Film, (Sightlines Series) London &New York: Routledge, 1992

Edward Branigan. Point of View in the Cinema, The Hague: Mouton, 1984 Edward Branigan. Narrative Comprehension and Film, London &New York: Routledge, 1992

Gerald Mast, Mashall Cohen, Leo Braudy (Editors) Theory and Criticism, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992

Noel Carroll. Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 1988

Haim Callev, The Stream of Consciousness in the Films of Alain Resnais, New York: Mcgruer Publishing, 1997

Gilles Deleuze. Cinema 1: The Movement Image, London: Atlon Press, 1986

Robert Stam, Robert Burgoyne & Sandy Flitterman Lewis. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics, (Sightlines Series) London &New York: Routledge, 1992

Andrey Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema, 1989

Peter Wollen. Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, Bloomington &London, 1972

Bibliography in Hebrew will be handed over separately.

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