Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: French New Wave, Class Conflict, Claude Chabrol
23 Apr 2014
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Week 9 discontinuity editing: rules were made to be broken . Gives the impression of an unnatural diegesis, diegesis, wherein the unity of time and space unfolds clearly and coherently before our eyes wherein the unity of space and time is interrupted by the artifice and artfulness of filmmaking. Narrative economy: maximum coherence, control, conventions equals minimum conscious effort on part of spectator to make sense of what is on screen. Encourages a certain passivity on part of spectator to sit back and enjoy. Editing techniques are highly visible in your face . Editing serves the form of the film. Narrative economy: minimum/different coherence, control, conventions equals maximum conscious effort on part of spectator to put everything together editing discontinuities force the viewer to work out the implicit meanings. Encourages a certain activity on part of filmmaker we are asked, as by the soviet filmmakers, to analyze or at least to figure things out for ourselves.
