> I'm lloking some "ideas" to built a sort of vojage through
> flashback form, but not in an historycal, evolutive way. (i dont
> know, like: flashback from ulmer to roeg). but in a structural way.
Ah - *structural*. Now's there's a word you don't read on this list very
often.
Sounds to me like what you need is Gerard Genette's _Narrative Discourse_
This provides a comprehensive account of modes of temporal order in
narrative. It's formalist and therefore deeply unfashionable, but it's
USEFUL. It'll certainly help you actually start analysing the things you're
interested in. (The example he uses is Proust, which is the locus classicus
for any account of flashback....talking of which, there's a lot of good
criticsm on Bertolucci's The Conformist which also takes Proust as its point
of departure for flashback.)
Obviously there's lots of useful work in cognitivist film theory - look for
relevant sections in Edward Branigan's _Narrative Comprehension and Film_.
Presumably you know the Russian formalist literature on the fabula/syuzhet
distinction?
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