CIN101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jean-Luc Godard, Roberto Rossellini, Peter Kubelka
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Editing was the essence of cinema: montage = editing, sergei eisenstein: made narrative films. Narrative is secondary to the effects of editing. His approach of editing is conflict and contrast between images (discontinuity). Deception: walter is hidden from our view (e. g. scene from the train-entering, where walter pretends to be her husband) 1. Doubling characters with their shadows = hidden motives 2. Walter"s frame entering links to powerlessness theme of film noir. Ordinary people in ordinary situations vs fantasy (e. g. superhero movies) Formal realism: natural lighting,longer takes, avoiding special effects, use of open-frame proposition. Modernism, realism: emphatic foregrounding of style: visible style. (at least as important or more important than the story) aka. Formalism: oppositional stance: opposed to mainstream stylistic conventions nd/or traditional social conventions, exploration of subjective states. Intentional rough, amateur look: expermintation with editing (e. g. jean-luc godard, abrupt shifts in angle/distance of the camera.
