Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Classical Hollywood Cinema, Diegesis, Heteronormativity

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1022
• Professor: Barbara Bruce

Document Summary

A chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space (there needs to be context) Narration: the plot"s way of distributing story info. Omniscient: when the audience knows way more than the characters. Restricted: we know only what the character sees and hears. Classical hollywood cinema: narrative is driven by the character"s goal and desires. Sound perspective: when we hear what the actor hears. Perceptual subjectivity: what we perceive through the sight and sounds on screen, we see what a character sees (pov) Mental subjectivity: could be internal dialogue, dreams, etc going more in depth. When we see the memories/hallucinations/dreams of characters. *range and depth of knowledge are independent variables. Ex. narration (omniscient/restricted) and depth of the characters. Story: in a narrative film, all the events that we see and hear, plus all those that we infer or assume to have occurred, arranged in their presumed causal relations, chronological order.