Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Preface to the English-language edition xvii
6. Acknowledgments xxvii
7. Introduction 1
8. 1. Early Cinema and Narrativity 11
9. 2. Narrative Problems 19
10. 3. In Search of the First Film Narrative 26
11. 4. Early Narratology: Mimesis and Diegesis 38
12. 5. Textual Narrative and Staged Narrative 52
13. 6. Narration and Monstration 62
14. 7. The Narrator and the Monstrator 72
15. 8. Narration and Monstration in the Cinema 81
16. 9. The Film Narrative System 90
17. 10. The Origins of the Film Narrator 101
18. 11. Narrator(s) 113
19. 12. A Monstrative Entertainment, Assisted by Narration 125
20. 13. Delegated Film Narrators 135
21. Conclusion 147
22. Afterword (1998): Cinema, Between Literariness and Intermediality 151
23. Notes 165
24. Bibliography 207
25. Index 219