ENGL 277 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Spritsail, Intertextuality, Monogram Pictures

• School: McGill University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 277
• Professor: Derek Nystrom

Document Summary

First quiz next week conferences - multiple choice. Mostly from b&t and major concepts and themes. Looked at his girl friday: many of these film makers were friends. Represent real places, less constructed - personal relationship with the location, often specific neighbourhood in paris. Unlike studio - allowed for chance happenings: lack of resources;budget filming lead to stylistic innovation. Events happen to the character - not a lot of focus on the things that would get focus in traditional hollywood cinema. Ellipse that skips the important parts of the film. Editing demonstrates spacial temporal casual relationships similar to narrative. Narrative in the film: scenes were partially improvised, use of the documentary techniques and equipment as the affect of formally - Documentary feel: objective realism, expressionist techniques, authorial commentary - create narrative ambiguity about its realness, in comparison to classical hollywood narrative.