ENGB70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Un Chien Andalou, Jump Cut, Claude Chabrol
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> notion that film directors qualified as artists - prior to this they were seen as highly competent film works and this theory changed that idea. > discovery & identification of underlying themes and consistent stylistic tendencies in different films by the same director: notion that a director could have an style - this likend director to an author/artist. > fragmentation, oppositional stance, exploration of subjective states also in non-narrative modernism i. e. meshes of the afternoon - > in avant-garde cinema, modernism appears as an reaction to commercialism. > reaction collapse of social order following wwi - these films as ways to express a fragmented experience of the world. > noticeable storytelling process (overtly focused on how the story is told) - an example is. Godard"s film - more about the process of making the film. > exploration of interior subject life of characters - i. e. meshes of the afternoon: un chien andalou and meshes of the afternoon.
