FILM 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Alexandre Astruc, Tongues Untied, Gleaning
16 Mar 2016
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Frustraion of taxonomy/classiicaion: the essay ilm is diicult to put into a pre-exising classiicaion. Chris marker"s model is oten the standard form is essay ilm. Try to compare the literary and cinemaic essays. Alexandre astruc is famous for invening the noion of la camera stylo: film has its own language (see: mise-en-scene) The ilmmaker writes with his camera the way the author writes with his or her pen. alexandre astruc. The camera pen: wedding the emoional & intellectual cinema. Muli-direcionality of thought processes: does not need to be straighforward, does not follow the set in stone structure of the writen essay. A documentary form that allows the exploraion of the imaginary (nora alter) Centrality of meditaion (burch: clear your mind, must be present, mull over your paricular theme(s) The status of the voice & the voice-over (and sound) Typical voice over is voice of god omniscient narrator (ex: housing problems) Voice over is oten central to the essayisic ilm.
