Translation of: Du littéraire au filmique. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-218) and index
Early cinema and narrativity -- Narrative problems -- In search of the first film narrative -- Early narratology : mimesis and diegesis -- Textual narrative and staged narrative -- Narration and monstration -- The narrator and the monstrator -- Narration and monstration in the cinema -- The film narrative system -- The origins of the film narrator -- Narrator(s) -- A monstrative entertainment, assisted by narration -- Delegated film narrators