Journal of Narrative Theory (2010) - Telling Stories: Unreliable Discourse, "Fight Club", and the Cinematic Narrator

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• article: Telling Stories: Unreliable Discourse, "Fight Club", and the Cinematic Narrator
• author(s): Emily R. Anderson
• journal: Journal of Narrative Theory (2010)
• issue: volume 40, issue 1, pages 80-107
• DOI: 10.1353/jnt.0.0042
• journal ISSN: 1549-0815
• publisher: Eastern Michigan University
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Broadcasting, Cinema, Cinematic Narrator, Criticism and interpretation, David Bordwell, David Fincher, Dramatic arts, Fight Club, Film, Flashbacks (Dramatic technique), George M. Wilson, Individual Films, Interactive Media, Jane Wyman, Motion picture directors & producers, Richard Todd, Robert Montgomery, Robert Stam, Stage Fright (1950), Tom Gunning, Unreliable narrator

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Abstract

[...] auteurism does highlight our need to ascribe intentionality to someone or something, be it a director, a producer, or a studio. Because in film we have no single author, we create an entity - usually identified with the director's name - to which we can attribute intention, the source of meaning.