> >The question itself, though, raises the more problematic question of what >constitutes the film " >narrator" in the first place. Is it the implied organizing and presenting >consciousness? Is it an anthropomorphization of the "camera" (which usualy >also means editing and sound)? Is it the apparent focus of the main character? >Is it to be confined to the much rarer instance of a first-person voiceover >narrator? ****** Actually i'd used the phrase "film *equivalent* of unreliable narrator" partly to avoid this question. There really isn't a narrator in film in the sense that a novel has a narrator; even film voiceovers are the source of the images as a written narrator is the source of all our information. (With exceptions like, oh, John Fowles' The Collector which alternates two different first-person narrations.) A film like Lady in the Lake might be unique in narrative film for feature-length first-person. LT ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]