Make believe in film and fiction [electronic resource] : visual vs. verbal storytelling / Karl Kroeber.
Publication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.Description: 228 pISBN:- 1403972796 (alk. paper)
- 1403983224
- 9781403972798
- PN1995.3 .K76 2006eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index.
Brutal Beginnings: Imagining Murder/ Watching Murder -- Moving Eyes, Moving Sculptures -- Inside and outside Somebody Else's Fantasy -- Make Believe Is Always a Story -- Single-Handed and Collective Make Believe -- Movies and Hyper-Visual Culture -- La Strada and the Conjecturing Imagination -- Madame Bovary: Linguistic Configurings of Imaginative Corruption -- Rashomon and Wuthering Heights -- Form in Visual Storytelling: Buster Keaton's The General -- Genre and Transforming Sources: High Noon Forenoon -- Seeing and Imagining Ethical Crises: High Noon: Afternoon -- Great Expectations: Insights from the Impossibility of Adaptation -- Magnifying Criminality: Fargo, Film Noir, and A Perfect World -- Innovative Lawfulness: Learning to Read.
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