Contemporary Cinema by Allan Cameron
Modular Narratives express how time can be manipulated
within a narrative.
Anachronic Modular Narratives
Anachronic uses flashbacks and flash-forwards with no clear
dominance between any of the narrative threads. These often repeat scenes
through another person’s perspective, an example being Pulp Fiction and Momento.
Forking Path Narratives
Forking-Path Narratives displays alternative versions of a
story, showing all possible outcomes which can occur from small changes in a
single event. There are a number of plotlines that usually contradict the
other. eg. Groundhog Day.
Episodic Narratives
An Episodic Narrative is an abstract series of narrative
anthology. An abstract series type of modular narrative is characterised by the
operation of non-narrative formal system which appears to dictate the
organisation of narrative elements such as a sequence of number or the
alphabet. An anthology consists of shorter tales which are apparently
disconnected but have certain similarities. eg. An episode of Survivors.
Split Screen Narratives
Split Screen Narratives are different from other modular
narratives as they are articulated along events rather than a temporal line.
This therefore splits the screen into two or more frames beside events within
the same visual field in sustainable fashion. Eg. Timecode.
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