Suture and Narrative Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Filmampampnbspby George Butte offers a new phenomenological understanding of how fiction and film narratives use particular techniques to create and represent the experience of community. Butte turns to the concept of suture from Lacanian film theory and to the work of MerleauPonty to contribute a deeper and broader approach to intersubjectivity for the field of narrative theory. Buttes approach allows for narratives that represent insight as well as blindness love and loss locating these connections and disconnections in narratological techniques that capture the crisscrossing of perspectives such as those in fictions free indirect discourse and in the oblique angle of films shotreverse shot convention. Butte studies the implications of this chiasmus in the novels and film adaptations of later Henry James works Barries Peter Pan tales and film adaptations and the filmsampampnbspSilence of the LambsandampampnbspNothing But a Man. Sutures story in the twentieth century according to Butte is a story of the loss of immediacy and community. Yet in concluding this Butte finds optimism in the Coen brothersampampnbspRaising Arizonaampampnbspas well as inampampnbspWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normalampampnbspby Jeanette Winterson and Marc Webbs filmampampnbsp500 Days of Summer.