Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. PART 1. THE BASICS
6. 1 The Emergence of Narrative, Narration, and Narrative Agents in Early Cinema (The Gay Shoe Clerk) 1
7. 2 Narrative Structure in Classical and Contemporary Hollywood (Hitchcock and James Bond) 11
8. 3 Narration (Gone Girl, beDevil, and Jurassic Park) 29
9. 4 Enunciation and Reflexivity (The Grand Budapest Hotel and Marnie) 47
10. PART 2. TYPES OF STORYTELLING
11. 5 Feminism, Narrative, Authorship (Gone Girl and Orlando) 65
12. 6 Art Cinema Narration (Alice in the Cities and Inland Empire) 81
13. 7 Unreliable Narration and Puzzle Films (You Only Live Once, Stage Fright, and The Butterfly Effect) 94
14. 8 Videogame Logic (The Fifth Element, Inception, and Source Code) 105
15. Coda 117
16. Works Cited 121
17. Index 129