Maria del Mar Azcona, The Multi-Protagonist Film.

In this stimulating and original volume the author presents “a contemporary tendency to abandon the single-protagonist structure on which most films narratives have traditionally relied and replace it by a wider assortment of characters with more or less independent narrative lines” (1). Of particular importance is the fact that the films falling into this relatively new category present “a multiplicity of characters of similar narrative relevance ... without establishing a strict narrative h...