> What happens with the narrator in film? Can we accept the camera as
 > a
 > narrator? (in comparison to the narrator in literary works)I am
 > thinking
 > particularly about those films, like The Age of Innocence, where you
 > have a
 > narrator throughout the whole film.
 
I wouldn't consider the camera a narrator.  If you've gone far enough into
studying narrators, you'll recall things like intrusive narration, telescoping
narration and the lot.  In all I think there are 5.  This is what narration is,
it tells a certain side of the story.  Narrators are always biased in no matter
what medium.  The tone of the voice, the relationship between the narrator and
the character.  However, we have the camera.  The camera captures everything,
and we have to assume that it is non-biased.  We have no way of confirming
this, as we do in narration, so we have to accept it.
 
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