Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - David Bordwell, Art Film, Authorial Intent
21 Nov 2012
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A european narrative style in the post wwii area. Crisis in the idea of progress after the horrors of world war ii/post-war (anguish of ordinary living) Sources: 1920s art film (bordwell: german expressionism and french. Impressionism: literary modernism (e. g. stream of consciousness narration) Way of recording reality that is highly subjective/highly personal. Different use of narrative; different way of structuring events. Very associative and dreamlike portrayal of the world. Slow motion to capture the heightened perception of a sequence. Retreat from exterior reality into a psychological world: anguished psychological drama of the primary character, drama of heightened/distorted perception of the characters. Cause and effect logic: conflict resolution. Action through psychologically defined, goal oriented characters (goal- defined trajectory) Narrative time and space are constructed to represent a cause and effect chain. Film style serves a narrative function (editing, pov, mise-en-scene, etc. ) According to bordwell, in hollywood cinema, the viewer makes meaning through.
