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CHAPTER 7
NARRATIVE FILMS: TELLING STORIES
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Character development can involve
2. A historical narrative location
3. A story is
4. The deadline structure
5. Third-person narration
6. Archetype
7. An example of linear chronology
8. An example of multiple narration
9. Credits
10. Classical Hollywood narrative
A. employs an omniscient or a restricted narration that suggests some degree of realism.
The answer can be found on p. 276.
FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS
1. The _____________ orders the events and actions of the story according to particular temporal and spatial
2. The entire world that a story describes or that the viewer infers is called its _____________, which indicates the
4. _____________ suggests an important correlation between a character’s state of mind and the physical place he
5. When a flashback describes the perspective on the whole story, it creates a _____________ , which tells of past
SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS (3–4 SENTENCES)
1. What effect might be created for the film viewer when a narrative frame brackets the film’s narrative in a way that
helps define its terms and meaning?
2. Explain two possible major general advantages of including divided characters in a film narrative.
3. What is plot order? Give two examples of plot orders and what they each might convey in a film.
4. How did the introduction of sound technology and dialogue in the late 1920s enable film narratives to create and
develop more intricate characters who were used to propel more complex movie plots?
5. Give an example of a nondiegetic element and explain how it might contribute to the meaning of a film.