FILM 1401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Existentialism, Thomson To7, Marjane Satrapi
23 Oct 2020
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Neorealism: took as subject matter the struggles of the poor, downtrodden, working class citizens, used documentary style realism, real locations, nonprofessional actors, filmed outdoors in natural light. The imperial gaze": proposed by e. anne butler, the observed"(objects of the gaze) find themselves defined in terms of the privileged observer"s (subject) own set of value- preferences. The oppositional gaze: proposed by bell hooks, counters mulvey"s male gaze" with the oppositional gaze of black women, reciprocates or responds to the normative white" spectator gaze (subject) which objectifies black women. 3rd person narrator/narration: narrator not in the film - outside the action, provides information that the characters don"t have, and which may not be available to a first-person narrator, provides objective context/background, voiceover or omniscient". Depth of narration: objective narration, the viewer observers characters" external behaviour, as the camera stays outside" their minds, subjective narration, viewer privy to what the characters see, hear, think, and feel, as the camera goes inside their minds.
