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Chapter 1: Introduction to Narratology

p. 3 Forrest Gump: reordering story events in the discourse

p. 4 The Wizard of Oz: difference in story and discourse

 

Chapter 2: Plot – Basic Units

p. 10 Hamlet: opening ghost scene

P. 12 Nashville trailer

p. 12 Last Year at Marienbad trailer

p. 17 The Godfather: Michael shoots Sollozzo and McCluskey

p. 17 Groundhog Day: suicide attempts

 

Chapter 3: Plot Structure

p. 22 The Sting opening scene

p. 23 Gran Torino funeral

p. 23 The Dark Knight opening scene

p. 23 Back to the Future opening scene

p. 24 Sunset Blvd. opening scene

p. 24 Contact opening scene

p. 24 Citizen Kane opening scene

p. 25 Erin Brockovich

p. 26 The Godfather: “That’s my family”

p. 27 Dial M for Murder

p. 27 The Omen (foreshadowing)

p. 30 The Godfather: Michael shoots Sollozzo and McCluskey

p. 30 Back to the Future

p. 30 It’s a Wonderful Life

p. 31 Sliding Doors (trailer)

p. 31  Run Lola Run (trailer)

p. 32 Casablanca: final scene

p. 32 The Omen: final scene

p. 33 Planet of the Apes: final scene

p. 34 Suspicion

p. 35 Double Indemnity

p. 35 Forrest Gump: final scene

p. 38 Rear Window

p. 38 Traffic

p. 40 Heat

p. 40 The Fugitive: opposing protagonists

p. 42 Jaws

p. 44 Westworld

p. 44 Back to the Future 3: gun fight

p. 48 The Trip to Bountiful

 

Chapter 4: Reading for the Plot

p. 54 Amadeus: opening

p. 55 A Streetcar Named Desire

p. 55 Life of Pi

p. 56 Hamlet: Claudius at prayer

p. 57 The Sixth Sense

p. 60 Crash: car rescue

p. 60 Star Trek: Kirk meets Spock

p. 60 War of the Worlds: saved by germs

p. 60 Jurassic Park: saved by the T-Rex

p. 60 Shakespeare in Love: Queen Elizabeth’s surprise appearance

p. 61 After Hours

 

Chapter 5: Character

p. 69 Star Trek: death of red-shirt

p. 69 The Seventh Seal: Death plays chess

p. 71 Dr. Strangelove: Peter Sellers in multiple roles

p. 71 Boyhood: trailer

p. 74 The Silence of the Lambs: Clarice meets Lecter

p. 74 The Matrix: red or blue pill?

p. 74 The Maltese Falcon; femme fatale

p. 74 Wall Street: greed is good

p. 76 Fatal Attraction

p. 77 Sophie’s Choice

p. 78 The Imitation Game

p. 78 Tucker: The Man and his Dreams

p. 79 The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Peter arrives late to graduation

p. 80 Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon

p. 81 My Fair Lady: “I’ve Grown Accustomed to her Face”

p. 81 Being There: Chauncey’s advice to the President

p. 81 Psycho ending

p. 81 Annie Hall subtitles

p. 82 Shawshank Redemption

p. 82 Vertigo: Scottie sees Madeline

 

Chapter 6: Reading Character

p. 86 Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant scares boy

p. 88 Rear Window opening

p. 91 The Sting: poker game

p. 93 Rain Man

p. 94 The Color Purple

p. 94 The Dark Knight: Two-Face

p. 95 Gone with the Wind

p. 95 Tootsie

p. 95 Fiddler on the Roof: Tevye sings about “Tradition”

 

Chapter 7: Fictional Worlds

p. 103 Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace

p. 103 The Godfather: Don Corleone says no to the narcotics business

p. 103 Gandhi

p. 104 Selma: civil disobedience for a higher cause

p. 106 The Matrix: there is no spoon

p. 107 Contact: facts vs. faith

p. 108 Stranger than Fiction: Harold meets his author

p. 109 Annie Hall: scene with Marshall McLuhan

p. 110 Spaceballs: watching video of Spaceballs

p. 110 Funny Games

p. 111 Road to Morocco

p. 111 Mary Poppins: visiting a sidewalk chalk drawing

p. 111 The Simpsons: Bart and Lisa in an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon

p. 112 Purple Rose of Cairo

p. 112 Invasion of the Body Snatchers: “You’re next!”

p. 113 The Tingler

p. 115 “Why so serious?” transmedia campaign

p. 118 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 

p. 118 The Silence of the Lambs

p. 118 Pocahontas

p. 118 The Breakfast Club

p. 119 A Streetcar Named Desire

p. 119 Witness

p. 119 Places in the Heart

p. 119 Vice

 

Chapter 8: Time

p. 126 Memento

p, 127 The Godfather: meeting with Solozzo (flashforward)

p. 127 Casablanca: flashback to Paris

p. 129 Amadeus

p. 129 The Pawnbroker: fragmented memories

p. 130 Citizen Kane: first meeting with Susan

p. 130 Last Year at Marienbad (trailer)

p. 131 Terminator 2: possible future

p. 132 Timecode trailer

p. 133 Adaptation: human evolution in two minutes

p. 133 Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Sir Lancelot attacks

p. 134 Notting Hill: walk through the seasons

p. 135 2001: A Space Odyssey bone to spaceship edit

p. 136 Mildred Pierce opening scene

p. 137 Mission: Impossible

p. 137 Rashomon

 

Chapter 9: Perspective

p. 142 Double Indemnity: Walter Neff narrates his confession

p. 142 Sunset Blvd. opening scene

p. 144 Casino: death of a narrator

p. 145 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: direct narration

p. 147 Beneath the Planet of the Apes

p. 148 Henry V: narrator

p. 148 “Duck Amuck” (Daffy Duck cartoon): narrative metalepsis

p. 148 George of the Jungle: fighting with the narrator

p. 151 The Lodger: transparent floor

p. 151 Little Shop of Horrors: dentist song

p. 155 A Clockwork Orange: Alex jumps from window

p. 155 A Beautiful Mind: Nash cracks the code

p. 156 Eyes of Laura Mars

p. 156 Lady in the Lake: narrator POV

p. 156 Schindler’s List: girl in red coat

p. 157 Kramer vs. Kramer

p. 158 The Gold Rush: Chaplin turns chicken

p. 158 Slumdog Millionaire: fantasy death scene

p. 159 Blackmail: knife scene

p. 159 The Conversation: interview with sound editor Walter Murch

p. 160 Hamlet (Olivier): ghost scene with mother

p. 163 Forrest Gump: distorted perception of Jenny’s father

p. 164 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 

 

Chapter 10: Cinematography

p. 169 Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith opening scene

p. 170 Touch of Evil opening scene, long shot

p. 170 Strangers on a Train: first meeting

p. 171 Foreign Correspondent: fall from Westminster

p. 171 Star Wars: opening scene

p. 171 War of the Worlds: the unseen battle

p. 172 Variety (starts at 1:33:00)

p. 173 Pirates of the Caribbean

p. 173 A Fish Called Wanda

p. 173 Dracula: train

p. 174 Dracula: absinthe

p. 175 Metropolis

p. 175 2001: sunrise over monolith (around 6:00)

p. 175 The Shining: meeting the girls

p. 176 Star Wars: meeting Darth Vader

p. 176 Citizen Kane: after the election loss

p. 177 Mission Impossible: Dutch angles

p. 177 The Godfather: ending

p. 177 The Graduate

p. 177 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

p. 178 2001: HAL lip reads

p. 178 Citizen Kane: deep focus

p. 178 The Graduate: running to the church (around 2:19)

p. 179 Jurassic Park: pulling focus

p. 179 The Graduate: confession

p. 179 Halloween

p. 180 The Shining opening scene

p. 180 Sunset Blvd. ending

p. 180 Citizen Kane: after the crash

p. 181 The Vertigo effect

p. 181 Barry Lyndon: slow zoom-out

p. 182 Blowout

p. 182 Psycho: basement scene

p. 182 Fatal Attraction

p. 183 Suspicion

p. 183 The Lion King

p. 183 Dark City

p. 183 A Streetcar Named Desire

p. 184 The Natural

p. 184 Apocalypse Now: Col. Kurtz

p. 184 Citizen Kane: reporters

p. 185 Othello trailer

p. 185 Dracula shadow

p. 185 Greed

p. 186 The Andromeda Strain (trailer)

p. 186 The Godfather: Don Corleone buys oranges

p. 186 Vertigo: color

p. 187 Gone with the Wind

p. 187 The Shining: elevator of blood

p. 187 Murder on the Orient Express (spoiler)

p. 187 Dick Tracy trailer

 

Chapter 11: Editing

p. 191 Kuleshov’s experiment with editing

p. 193 Psycho: continuity editing

p. 194 Breathless: an analysis of discontinuity editing

p. 195 Unstoppable: post-continuity editing

p. 195 October

p. 196 Vice: fishing scene

p. 197 The Life of an American Fireman

p. 197 Strangers on a Train crosscutting

p. 198 The Godfather: christening scene

p. 198 The Silence of the Lambs

p. 199 North by Northwest: ending

p. 199 Raging Bull

p. 200 North by Northwest transition

p. 200 Forrest Gump transition to flashback

p. 200 Titanic

p. 201 Raiders of the Lost Ark

p. 201 Hugo match cut

p. 202 Psycho: shower scene

 

Chapter 12: Sound

p. 205 High Anxiety

p. 206 Witness: boy identifies killer

p. 206 Apocalypse Now: opening

p. 207 The 39 Steps: scream

p. 207 Citizen Kane: from stump speech to political rally

p. 208 Amadeus: mother-in-law to Queen of the Night

p. 209 Young Mr. Lincoln

p. 209 The Ten Commandments

p. 210 2001: a Space Odyssey

p. 210 Carrie

p. 210 Citizen Kane: Rosebud theme

p. 211 The Day the Earth Stood Still: eerie theremin music

p. 211 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly theme

p. 212 Catch 22: “2001” theme parody

p. 212 A Nightmare on Elm Street music

p. 212 Rosemary’s Baby

p. 212 The Omen theme

p. 212 All that Jazz: “I think I’m gonna die”

p. 213 Natural Born Killers: “I Love Mallory” scene

p. 214 Musical themes from The Lord of the Rings

p. 215 Fiddler on the Roof: “If I were a Rich Man”

p. 216 My Fair Lady: “Wouldn’t it be Loverly?”

p. 216 Little Shop of Horrors: dentist song

p. 216 Fiddler on the Roof: “Do you Love me?”

p. 216 My Fair Lady: “The Rain in Spain”

p. 217 Fiddler on the Roof: “To Life!”

p. 217 My Fair Lady: “I’ve Grown Accustomed to her Face”

p. 217 West Side Story: “Tonight” reprise

p. 217 Gypsy: “Let me Entertain you”

p. 217 1776: “Sit Down, John”

p. 218 Evita: “Good Night and Thank you”

p. 218 Chicago: “We Both Reached for the Gun”

 

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