© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Some of the most influential accounts of the transition from the cinema of attractions to narrative cinema have relied heavily on the figure of the film ...

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Comparative Critical Studies. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2018.0264

This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in European Cinema on 07 Oct 2016, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2016.1234834.

Despite fiction film arguably being the privileged object of film theory the notion of “fiction” has been undertheorised by film scholars in general and those working in German in particular. Perhaps the most important ...