Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-234) and index
Narrative and two other text-types -- Description is no textual handmaiden -- What is description in the cinema? -- Argumentation in film: Mon oncle d'Amérique -- In defense of the implied author -- The implied author at work -- The literary narrator -- The cinematic narrator -- A new point of view on "point of view" -- A new kind of film adaptation: The French lieutenant's woman -- The "rhetoric" "of" "fiction."