SMC103Y1 Chapter : Reading - Richard Lost .docx
13 Mar 2013
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Analyze how themes and parallels articulated through stylistic decisions of filmmakers. Style sensitive approach allows richer, nuanced understadngins of how religious themes function in film. Style-sensitive approach need not necessarily lead to questions of filmmakers" intentions. (547) Meaning partially expressed through stylistic considertations (i. e. lighting) Wristwatch guide through daily routine and express relationship, associated with self. Equating character with watch, display thoughts, kitchen outline setting resemble face of watch, part of watch beomces embedded in arm god as watchmaker (watch and watchmaker relationship), shot sequence and being watched . Sound of free will, theme of divine authority and human capacity -> authority of sound in film, (555) is sound subordinate or superior to authority of the image. Audiovisual cues and clues, confuse temporal relationship, nuanced theme, interwining themes visual nor audio authoritative on their own, complement each other, only when they converge can film meaning be conveyed (558)
