SCRN20011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Diegesis, Commodification

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8 Jun 2018

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Lecture 11: POMO cinema, complex narratives

Complex narratives

• Rise if prestige film & edgy/hip films

• 1990s: new phase of narrative complexity, shifts in temporality etc

• Shift in circuit

Excess of style

• Spectacle competes with narrative for importance

• Rapid editing and heightened use of non-diegetic music

• Fragmented narrative form

• Upset classical narrative paradigm

• Cinema about cinema -> no new ideas

Pomo

• Commodification of mass media

• Features:

o Idea of pastiche - a blank parody

o Celebration of entertainment history

o Excessive simulation

o Encourages engagement with film history

o Escapist ideologies

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