ENGB70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fourth Wall, French New Wave, Cahiers Du Cinéma
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> emphatic foregrounding of style - drawing attention to the formal aspects that construct a film. Editing, camera movement or lack thereof: e. g. fragmentation - or discontinuity. > oppositional stance - how film understands itself as a work of art. oppositional as in opposed to popular aesthetic and/or social conventions: values that are challenging to any given society. > exploration of subjective states : e. g. nature of consciousness, perception, and/or memory try to get us to think about philiosophical ideas that relate to how human beings relate to the social world, categorizing films. > realism, modernism, postmodernism - can take form in narrative vs. non-narrative: narrative (mainstream cinema, art cinema, non-narrative cinema (avant-garde cinema, modernism (and art cinema) -- french new wave. > 1959-1964 - dates when french new wave emerged. > natural lighting - lights are not used to enhance a night time scene for example. what spectator sees in screen= what human can see.
