In analyzing a film's narrative structure, we ought to ask ourselves some basic questions. List five of those questions you think are most important

What will be an ideal response?

Some of the basic questions that we ask ourselves while analyzing a film's
narrative structure are:
1. Who's telling the story? A voice-over narrator? Why him or her? Or does the story
"tell itself," like most stage plays? 2. Who is the implied narrator of such stories, the
guiding hand in the arrangement of the narrative's separate parts? 3. What do we as
spectators supply to the story? What information do we provide in order to fill in the
narrative's gaps? 4. How is time presented—chronologically or subjectively rearranged
through flashbacks and other narrative disjunctions? 5. Is the narrative realistic, classical,
or formalistic? 6. What genre, if any? What phase of the genre's evolution? 7. What does
the movie say about the social context and period that it was made in? 8. How does the
narrative embody mythical concepts or universal human traits?

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What organization checks circulation claims?

A) Arbitron Circulation Bureau B) American Research Bureau C) A.C. Nielsen Co D) Audit Bureau of Circulations

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George Lucas stuck to classical narrative conventions in American Graffiti, which ensured the movies impressive success for a young director

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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