Abstract
This research report seeks to give an overview of decisive studies in the field of paratextual elements in film. As the question of paratextuality originated in literary studies, Gérard Genette’s crucial and highly influential analysis will be briefly recapitulated and its shortcomings, particularly in terms of its transference to film, will be discussed. After an account of the main contributions and tendencies in the area of paratexts in film in general, research on two particular paratextual elements will be sketched out, namely title credits and film trailers. Of course, this report cannot and does not even desire to make claim to be complete but aims to give a general idea about a relatively new and very diverse field of studies. The individual works selected are mostly restricted to analyses exclusively and explicitly dealing with paratextual phenomena (as opposed to treating them as a marginal aspect). In this sense, the studies discussed are the most noteworthy in this field and the theories condensed to their key elements and ‘highlights’. Perhaps, it is best to consider this article a trailer….
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