Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Introduction to Volume One 1
6. ‘National’ Forms of Storytelling
7. Aristotle Did Not Make It to India: Narrative Modes in Hindi Cinema 11
8. Tootsie Meets Yeşilçam: Narration in Popular Turkish Cinema 25
9. Jewish Humour and the Cabaret Tradition in Interwar Hungarian Entertainment Films 34
10. Storytelling and Literary and Oral Forms
11. Third Person Interrupted: Form, Adaptation and Narration in Tony Takitani 51
12. The Labyrinth of Halfaouine: Storytelling and the 1001 Nights 61
13. ‘Leaping broken narration’: Ballads, Oral Storytelling and the Cinema 71
14. Rethinking Storytelling Forms in African Cinemas
15. Storytelling in Contemporary African Fiction Film and Video 89
16. That’s Entertainment?: Art, Didacticism and the Popular in Francophone West African Cinema 104
17. Intriguing African Storytelling: On Aristotle’s Plot by Jean-Pierre Bekolo 115
18. Storytelling and Visual Forms
19. Pirosmani’s Passion: Narration and the Aesthetics of Pirosmanashvili’s Paintings in Georgian Film 135
20. When the Story Hides the Story: The Narrative Structure of Milcho Manchevski’s Dust 150
21. Refusing to Conform: Forms of Non-narration
22. Primitive Gazing: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Sensational Inaction Cinema 165
23. Ghosts in the National Machine: The Haunting (and Taunting) Films of Tracey Moffatt 177
24. The Reluctance to Narrate: Elia Suleiman’s Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention 192
25. Index 205