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(Anderson, 2010) “Telling Stories: Unreliable Discourse, Fight Club, and…
(Anderson, 2010) “Telling Stories: Unreliable Discourse, Fight Club, and the Cinematic Narrator”
intro
interrogate perspective and interpretation,
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Filmic narration
create an entity—usually identified with the director’s name—to which we
can attribute intention, the source of meaning
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film’s narrator is the combination of mise en scène, cinematography, editing, and sound.
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cinematic narrators
combination of cinematography, editing, mise en scène, and
sound cannot be made into a persona
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1 - films that mislead the viewer
by underreporting the story, and 2 - films that lie to the viewer by misreporting the story
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think of these characters as focalizers, filters
Fight Club application
Jack narrates the bulk of the film, as his delusions dominate
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Narrative frames
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Each narrative situation falls into place if the flashbacks have a heterodiegetic narrator who can represent or misrepresent at
will
self-reflexivity
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“It’s called a changeover,” Jack says in voiceover
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