Make believe in film and fiction visual vs. verbal storytelling - Kroeber, Karl, 1926-2009.; ebrary, Inc. (New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Motion pictures and literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Film adaptations; Electronic books