The Screenlife Narrative
Time and Focalization in Films Set on Computer Screens
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https://doi.org/10.30962/ecomps.2947Keywords:
Screenlife, Screenmovie, Narrative time, Focalization, NarratologyAbstract
The article does a narratological analysis of screenlife films, with the contribution of Gérard Genette’s work (1988; 2017). I define screenlife as an audiovisual form characterized by setting the narratives on computer screens. I discuss how the most popular films of this format construct their figures of time and focalization. Seven fictional films are analyzed: The Collingswood Story (2002), Unfriended (2014), Sickhouse (2016), Unfriended: Dark Web (2018), Searching (2018), Host (2020) and Profile (2021). As a result, I describe the regularities and singularities of the films, understanding screenlife narrative in its formal multiplicity.
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