PART 4
AESTHETICS AND AUTHORSHIP
Part 4 (Chapters 12 through 16) examines the aspects of form that must be brought under control because a film is not just content, but form, too. This often-neglected area embraces how the film will look, how its story will be told, and why. The chapters consider point of view, authorial purpose, genre options, the place of conflict in drama, and the ethics of representation.
A book on narrative I have found inspiring and challenging is Michael Roemer's Telling Stories: Postmodernism and the Invalidation of Traditional Narrative (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995). Chapter 1 begins:
Every story is over before it is begun. The novel lies bound in my hands, the actors know all their lines before the ...
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