CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: A Priori And A Posteriori, Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped
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Understanding a film by way of its connection to other films directed by the same director. Origins of auteurism can be traced back to france in the 1960s. It is both tied to and enabled by european art cinema. Classical cinema a tale without a teller doesn"t appear to be being told or narrated, it just is. Style is invisible and supports the narrative storytelling, and easy to forget you"re watching something that is staged. Art cinema calls attention to itself as a work of art. Self reflexive (8 ) reference to the making of a film, mode of narration that is not straightforward, uses devices in a non-naturalistic fashion. Understanding films by identifying with the director and measuring against their previous work to distinguish their present work (their consistencies that speak to a larger social context) Two assumptions that have prevailed in the wake of auteurism:
