ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the debate over two central claims regarding cinematic narration: the claim that there are implicit cinematic narrators and the thesis that when people watch movies, they imagine seeing the events and characters in the film fiction. It focuses on the indeterminacies with respect to fictional narration in movies, and what a consideration of this aspect of fictional indeterminacy can contribute to the debate over the implicit cinematic narrator. The controversy over cinematic narrators arises with respect to the claim that every fiction film has an implicit narrator who is responsible for conveying the story to the audience. A central problem with the ontological gap argument is that it is undermined by its own assumptions. But the principle of the indeterminacy of fictional narration has also been appealed to by George Wilson to argue in favor of the mediated version of imagined seeing.
