Film narratives are usually linear. That means we see the events of the story unfolding in the order in which they occurred. For example, in Toy Story we follow Woody and Buzz’s adventure in a ...

Both linear and non-linear structures are influenced by the narrator’s point of view. In a circular narrative, the last section (or even just the last line) of a piece of writing takes you back ...

The director's elegiac ode to one man and his lawn tractor embraced some of the more established conventions of cinema - a linear narrative structure being chief among them. For others ...