FILM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: History Of Japan, Teen Film, Private Investigator

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: FILM 1101
• Professor: Gunnar Iverson

Document Summary

Narrative structure: conflicts & goals, characters fit plot action (change as the plot evolves, the protagonist is the focus of the story, time pressure & deadlines, plot organized in (four) midsize units (sometimes called acts) Plot structure in mainstream film: act 1: set up, act 2: complicating action, act 3: development, act 4: climax, epilogue. Classical narrative style - the 8 c"s: clarity, coherence, continuity, chronology, construction, conflict, causality (cause & effect, conventions. Modern narrative style: expressivity & ambiguity, fragmentation, openness (open to our interpretations, non-chronology, non-finality, ambivalence, non-causality, reinvention. 1920s-1940s: genre & the studio system: the importance of genre & the popularity of specific genres have waxed & waned depending on the historical period & culture. 1948-1970s: postwar film genres: film noir - a film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace, blaxploitation - the exploitation of black people, especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies.