<p>Most modern studies of narrative tend to focus predominantly on literature with only some reference to film. In <i>Film Narratology</i>, Peter W.J. Verstraten makes film narratives his primary focus, while noting the unexplored and essentially different narrative effects that film can produce with mise-en-scène, cinematography, and editing.</p><p>Reworking the definitive theory of narration offeredby literary scholar Mieke Bal, <i>Film Narratology</i> examines cinematic techniques such as external and internal narration, visual and auditive focalization, the narrative force of sound, and the ambiguities caused by voice-overs and flashbacks. Verstraten illustrates these narrative principles with a broad range of examples drawn from avant-garde cinema, golden age Hollywood, blockbusters, and European art cinema. Insightful and comprehensive, <i>Film Narratology</i> will surely become the standard reference of cinematic narration for film students and scholars.</p>