Introduction to Screen Narrative

Paul Taberham is Associate Professor in Film and Animation Studies at the Arts University Bournemouth, UK. He is the author of Lessons in Perception: The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist (Berghahn, 2018) and the forthcoming Animated Visions: Theory, History and Aesthetics (Berghahn, 2024). He is also the co-editor of Cognitive Media Theory (Routledge, 2014) with Ted Nannicelli, and Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital (Routledge, 2019) with Miriam Harris and Lilly Husbands. Paul is a fellow of the Society of Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, and on the editorial board for Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Catalina Iricinschi is Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Franklin & Marshall College. Research interests include event segmentation in film narrative, eye tracking in narrative processing, narrative of belonging and displacement, place and space depiction in film narrative, and Romanian cinema. She has published in journals such as Cognitive Science, Projections: The Journal for Movie and Mind, I-Perception, along with the edited anthologies Space in Language and the forthcoming Narrative, Media and Cognition.

Introduction
Catalina Iricinschi and Paul Taberham1. Dimensions of Narrative
Paul TaberhamPART I: Convention, Deviation, Evolution2. Enjoying Classical Hollywood Storytelling
Todd Berliner3. Independent Cinema
Geoff King4. Interview: David Greenberg
5. Complex Film Narratives: Diegetic Fictionalization in Christopher Nolan’s Fantastical Puzzle Film Cycle
Miklós KissPART II: Art Cinema6. Realism, Time and Ambiguity: Narration in Art Cinema
Paul Taberham7. Interview: Ioana Uricaru
8. Pseudo-Narration in Jean-Luc Godard’s Late Films
András Kovács
9. Defining a Lynchian Narrative
Neil McCartneyPART III: Alternative Media10. Television Narrative: Forms, Strategies, and Histories
Sean O’Sullivan and Robyn Warhol11. The Way Toons Tell It: Animation’s Narrative Strategies
Christopher Holliday12. Interview: Josh Weinstein
13. Video Game Narrative: Concepts and Practices for Structuring and Infusing Story in Games
Dominic Arsenault14. Interview: Evan Skolnick
15. Transmedia Storyworlds and Transmedia Universes
Jan-Noël ThonPART IV: New Perspectives16. Two Philosophies of the Screenplay
Enrico Terrone17. The Absorbed Viewer’s Activity
Ed Tan and Katalin Bálint18. The Cognition of Event Segmentation in Film Narrative: Segmenting, Parsing, and the Ensuing Narrative Comprehension
Catalina Iricinschi