Article: Narration and Focalisation in Wings of Desire.

Edward Branigan's book Narrative Comprehension and Film (1992) illustrates in its very title a major development that has taken place in the study of narrative film over the last two decades: a move away from a text-based structural analysis towards a cognitive analysis of the comprehension of narratives. Cognitive film narratologists do not focus exclusively on films in themselves but on the spectator's comprehension of films.

David Bordwell initiated a cognitive analysis of filmic comprehension in his book Narration in the Fiction Film (1985). Bordwell argues that the logical form of a narrative film is initially incomplete, but is enriched, or completed, by ...

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