The concept of narrative: An analysis of Requiem for a Dream(.com) and Donnie Darko(.com)

Convergence

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 55-82

  Beck, James C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61049435247     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135485650401000305     Document Type: Article

References (23)

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2. Gerard Genette, Narrative Discourse An Essay in Method, trans. Jane E. Lewin, Foreword Jonathon Culler (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980), p. 40. Genette defines an analepsis in literary fiction as 'any evocation after the fact of an event that took place earlier than the point in the story where we are at any give moment'.
3. 'Donnie Darko to be re-released', CNN.com, 21 April 2003 http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/21/film.darko.reut/
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6. See www.imdb.com and its section on Donnie Darko for some of the differing interpretations as to what happens in the Donnie Darko narrative.
7. Larry Collette, The Motion Picture Mega-Industry. Barry R. Litman (Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998), p. 135.
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9. Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 218-228.
10. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), pp. 3-25.
11. Mieke Bal, Narratology Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, 2nd edn. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), p. 221.
12. Paul Young, 'The Negative Re-Invention of Cinema: Late Hollywood in the Early Digital Age', Convergence, 5, no. 2 (1999), p. 41.
13. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1974), p. 36. Derrida critiques the notion of origins and strivings for origins and foundations within philosophy.
14. David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art An Introduction 6th edn. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2001), p. 60.
15. David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), p. 35.
16. Marie-Laure Ryan, 'Immersion vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory', Postmodern Culture, 5, no. 1 (September, 1994), Paragraphs numbered 27 and 28 from the online source available at http://jefferson.village. virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.994/ryan.994 and also from Project Muse journal subscribers.
17. See Jakob Nielson, Designing Web Usability (Indianapolis, IN: New Riders Publishing, 2000) for a fairly conservative description of what constitutes good navigation and usability design.
18. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham, Duke University Press, 1992), pp. 90-96.
19. Narration in the Fiction Film, p. 31.
20. Donald F. Theall, 'The Carnivalesque, the Internet and Control of Content: satirizing knowledge, power and control', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 13, no. 2 (1999), pp. 157, 160.
21. Jay David Bolter, Writing Space: the Computer, Hypertext and the History of Writing (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991), p. 26.
22. Adrian Miles, 'Cinematic Paradigms for Hypertext', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 13, no. 2 (1999), pp. 217-225.
23. Geert Lovink, Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002), pp. 31, 34.