Please entertain a request for guidance from a new member of the list. For many years, I have considered myself a Shakespearean performance critic, but recently my interest has shifted from Shakespeare on stage to Shakespeare on the screen. I am not as well versed in film theory as I would like to be, and I find myself in need of advice about where to go to read more about a particular aspect of point of view in cinema. My current scholarly project examines two recent Shakespeare films in which the director takes a minor character in the play and expands that figure's part in the film to the extent that the audience, in the words of one of the directors, "sees the action through his eyes." The director does not mean this comment literally (the film employs point of view shots only sparingly), but rather, the director seems to imply that the experience of the story is filtered through the consciousness of this marginally involved character, who is frequently shown watching and reacting silently to the events of the narrative. I would prefer to use accepted film terminology to refer to this figure, if such terms exist, and I would also like to read as much as I can about point of view in film that might relate to this situation. So far, my efforts at scanning bibliographies in textbooks and critical works on film have not produced any titles that seem promising. Can anyone suggest any books or articles in which I might find treatments of such a figure or the concept of point of view in general? Thanks in advance for your help. -- Michael D. Friedman University of Scranton [log in to unmask] ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html