CIN105Y1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Classical Hollywood Cinema, Diegesis, Silence
20 Nov 2018
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As a viewer you are responding to it at every moment. This means that meaning can vary and change. Ex. over time (something scary in 1935 isn"t the same today, even if the cue is there) if the meaning simply resided in the artwork, the thing would still be scary today. It is through form that content emerges (form and content are not mutually exclusive; rather, content takes shape through form) Resolution (at the end of the film) is a convention part of the internal clock of the cinema. In avant-garde cinema, many of these conventions are purposefully disrupted (sometimes this prevents us from understanding the film, such as in persona clip) Film is much more complex than a painting (audio-visual) Principles of film form (bordwell and thomson): function. In sitr, song is used for characters to express themselves: similarity and repetition. In sitr, lena"s screeching voice is a sonic motif (inability to enunciate, etc.
