FAMST 46 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Classical Hollywood Cinema, Soviet Montage Theory, Continuous Function
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Jump cuts shifting of the camera less than thirty degrees (jerky bump, no smooth transition), breathless, prevents us from entering the film, are aware of the artifice and technique. Classical hollywood cinema: story > form, transitive action, linear, goal oriented, closure, illusionist, plot. Based on verisimilitude (plausible spaces: authorship. Art cinema: breaks away from illusion, realism, (real locations), mixed subjects. Illusion/reality, vaguely defined goals, non-closure intertextuality: plot. Psych motivation or no motivation: authorship. Foregrounded (the spectator is aware that formal and stylistic choices are being made by an authorized presence . Avant-garde: anti-illusionist, taboo subjects, dream reality, non-narrative, direct emotions (expressionism, plot. Based on repetitions and variations: authorship. John woo: complicating form w/edits, jump cuts, etc, point-of-view shot, expansion of time through editing, slowing down the sequence, intensified continuity, contradict line of action, gaze. Lawrence of arabia: david lean (started career as editor)
