ENG 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Narrative Structure, Celluloid, Defamiliarization
22 Jan 2018
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Diff approaches post continuity editing (gamer), seek make continuity weave with new tech(wall-e), cameron reveling in using 0s and 1s, nolan more concerned with material objects. Both films digital medium create enhanced realism capture reality and enhance and extend capacity to perceive reality improve celluloid. Children of men designed to look like journal reportage. Characteristic feature long scenes with no cuts. Under the skin long often static shots. Focalize our attention through alien what that does for viewers. Familiar landmarks tur(cid:374)i(cid:374)g to rui(cid:374)s. not yet rui(cid:374)s, (cid:271)ut o(cid:374) it"s (cid:449)ay. 18 years into the end of the human race. Very near future but the future is not cozy like her stability is broken down. Narrative structure simple film never told why human fertility has ended no world building in how things unfold invoke questions about fundamental nature of human existence central narrative structure = quest. Resonances of christian story of birth of jesus playing out in quest.
