INI100H1 Lecture Notes - Studio System, Continuity Editing, Clark Gable
25 Apr 2013
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Narrative or non-narrative system (narrative, rhetorical, categorical, associational, abstract) Stylistic system (describe film"s overall form, determine primary techniques and interactions, identify patterns, propose functions for techniques) Formal analysis demands a focus on films as self-sufficient entities and thus an exclusive privileging of the textual. We think about films as texts, or self-sufficient entities. Formal analysis is not the only way to approach the study of film, for there is always an outside to a text. This semester, we are going to have an opportunity to go beyond the textual in film and film culture. Outside the film text, we have the extratextual (which surrounds the text, which is outside the text). There is also the intertextual which surrounds a text, which refers to the way 2 or more texts influence each other. It is the relationship between/among one or multiple texts. An intertextual reference is the reference one work of art makes to another work of art.
