Patricia Martin requests: > I am looking for films and resources for a course I am preparing on > non-linear narrative. I am also analizing films in which you can > detect the influence of multimedia visual strucutures/ metafors David Bordwell's NARRATION IN THE FICTION FILM gives an exhaustive overview of both linear (or "classical," if you prefer) film narratives and alternatives such as the European Art Film and the work of Godard (most of whose work is "non-linear" in some way or another). See especially his chapter on "paradigmatic" films. And there are avant-garde films like UN CHIEN ANDALOU that continually tempt you to construct a narrative while denying it at the same time. Mary Ellen Bute's FINNEGAN'S WAKE is an interesting attempt to put Joyce's novel on film. Some films are hardly narratives at all, even though they are linear in time, such as Terence Davies' THE LONG DAY CLOSES. Djibril Diop Mambety's TOUKI BOUKI is also linear in time but it defies simple causal links. Some of Oshima's work, especially THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM, would seem to fit here too. Some films are collections of episodes that work thematically rather than as a complete linear narrative, such as Bunuel's THE MILKY WAY. A number of Resnais' films (LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, MON ONCLE AMERICAIN) fit here too. You might want to look at Chris Ware's graphic novel, JIMMY CORRIGAN, THE SMARTEST KID ON EARTH, including the dust cover! As for multimedia visual structures and metaphors, you could back to the singing flower in A NOUS LA LIBERTE and its link to the phonograph, or the use of a phonograph record as a structuring device in George Stevens' PENNY SERENADE. More contemporary examples include much of Godard again (eg., PIERROT LE FOU, LA CHINOISE, etc.), some of Peter Greenaway's work (especially his version of THE TEMPEST), Paul Thomas Anderson's MAGNOLIA, etc. Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Larsson English Department, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite