A Guide to Post-classical Narration: The Future of Film Storytelling

Eleftheria Thanouli's A Guide to Post-classical Narration provides a comprehensive overview of the creative norms of the post-classical mode of narration, with dozens of case studies and hundreds of color stills from films across the globe. It demonstrates the resilience and creativity of post-classical storytelling in transforming its key formal principles, such as fragmented and multi-thread plotlines, hypermediated realism, parody, graphic frame construction, complex chronology, and intense self-consciousness. Thanouli addresses methodological questions in narrative research and reinforces her position on post-classical cinema, establishing the relevance of formalist analysis in the study of film today.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 14 December 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

In her groundbreaking work, A Guide to Post-classical Narration, Eleftheria Thanouli takes the theoretical exploration of film narration to new heights. Building upon her previous publication, Post-classical Cinema: an International Poetics of Film Narration (2009), Thanouli expands and deepens our understanding of the post-classical mode of storytelling. This comprehensive guide offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the creative conventions of post-classical narration. Packed with dozens of case studies and hundreds of vibrant color stills from films across the globe, this book provides the definitive account of post-classical storytelling and its innovative techniques.

The post-classical narrative style emerged in auteur films from diverse production contexts in the 1990s, gaining prominence throughout the 2000s and 2010s. It has proven resilient and creative, transforming key formal principles such as fragmented and multi-thread plotlines, hypermediated realism, parody, graphic frame construction, complex chronology, and intense self-consciousness. Through meticulous textual analysis of post-classical works, Eleftheria Thanouli addresses methodological questions in narrative research, reviving the tradition of historical poetics. By reinforcing her previous work with numerous new films and nuanced narrative terms and concepts, Thanouli strengthens her position in post-classical cinema and establishes the relevance of formalist analysis in the study of film today.

Weight: 488g
Dimension: 154 x 229 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501393075