<b>In <i>A Guide to Post-classical Narration</i>, Eleftheria Thanouli expands and substantially develops the innovative theoretical work of her previous publication, <i>Post-classical Cinema: an International Poetics of Film Narration </i>(2009).</b><i> A Guide to Post-classical Narration: The Future of Film Storytelling</i> presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the creative norms of the post-classical mode of narration. With dozens of cases studies and hundreds of color stills from films across the globe, this book provides the definitive account of post-classical storytelling and its techniques. After surfacing in auteur films in varied production milieus in the 1990s, the post-classical options continued to gain ground throughout the 2000s and 2010s, gradually fertilizing several mainstream productions in Hollywood. From Lars von Trier¿s <i>Europa</i> (1991) to Zack Snyder¿s <i>Army of the Dead</i> (2021) and Baz Luhrmann¿s <i>Elvis</i> (2022), the post-classical narratio