... of a textual narrator. Synecdoche, equivalent to cinematic close-up, is a predominant figure. Like cinematic narrative, that of Horn is subjectivized yet impersonal. Havelok has an intermittent narratorial ‘I’ occupying space outside the story, enacting various roles, and intervening...

... writer's literary conventions to create a cinematic narrative of high fidelity to its literary source that was also very filmable and appealing to the audience of the day. Edgar Allan Poe Richard Matheson House of Usher composition plotting characterisation macabre themes literary source literary...

...This book investigates H. G. Wells's interest in cinema and related media technologies, by placing it back into the contemporary cultural and scientific contexts giving rise to them. It plugs a gap in understanding Wells's contribution to exploring and advancing the possibilities of cinematic...