Abstract
Excess is endemic to film narrative. Despite the frame's symbolic effort to contain the film inside discernible boundaries, any film is fraught with aspects of simultaneity, multiplicity, and materiality that define its textual excess. The first two concepts, associated with Stephen Heath's analysis of Touch of Evil, assert that the screen always shows more action than the narrative can contain. In the novel, writes Heath,
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