FAMST 96 Lecture 1: Section 1 Notes
9 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Narrative
Bordwell reading - intro to narrative
Believes that narrative is what we should be looking at
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Read the introduction to get an overall sense of studying narrative
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What are the limits of using narrative when talking about films?
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Studying narrative as a process
Selecting
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Arranging
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Rendering story material
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Purpose: achieve specific time-bound effects on a perceiver
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How does the viewer make sense of what is going on with what
they are watching?
While we are watching a plot develop, we are creating our
own story
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Starting with a film not knowing what's going on and cognitively
trying to figure out the story/narrative
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Fabula, Syuzhet, and Style
Fabula - sometimes translated as "story"
Embodies the action as a chronological, cause/effect
chain of events occurring within a given duration and
spatial field ---- page 49 Bordwell
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Not what the movies gives.. It is what he audience
creates out of what the film gives us
Creating and trying to position the story
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The fabula (story) is how we understand the syuzhet
(plot)
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Syuzhet - aka. "plot"
Actual arrangement and presentation of the fabula in
the film --- page 50 Bordwell
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The way the events are actually portrayed in the film (in
the order that they are depicted on screen) [think back
to Brussutti narrative vs. plot]
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Solely the way the events are shown on the screen
Think of scene selection as a list of plots on a DVD
menu
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Style - the film's systemic use of cinematic devices -- page 50
Bordwell
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Figure 4.1 Film as a Phenomenal Processâ–ˇ
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Section 1 Notes
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
1:37 PM
Document Summary
Believes that narrative is what we should be looking at. Read the introduction to get an overall sense of studying narrative. Purpose: achieve specific time-bound effects on a perceiver. While we are watching a plot develop, we are creating our own story. Starting with a film not knowing what"s going on and cognitively trying to figure out the story/narrative. Embodies the action as a chronological, cause/effect chain of events occurring within a given duration and spatial field ---- page 49 bordwell. It is what he audience creates out of what the film gives us. The fabula (story) is how we understand the syuzhet (plot) Actual arrangement and presentation of the fabula in the film --- page 50 bordwell. The way the events are actually portrayed in the film (in the order that they are depicted on screen) [think back to brussutti narrative vs. plot] to brussutti narrative vs. plot] Solely the way the events are shown on the screen.
