PHL 710 Chapter 3: Evolution of the Language of Cinema - Notes
9 Feb 2019
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The evolution of the language of cinema - andre bazin. Silent film - cinema developed into an art most perfectly accommodated to the exquisite embarrassment of silence. Realism that sound would bring would mean a surrender to chaos. Certain cinematic values carry over from the silent to the sound film. Distinguishing cinema between 1920 and 1940 - those who put their faith in image and those who put their faith in reality. Those that relate to the plastics of the image. Those that relate to the resources of montage - ordering of images in time. Plastics includes style of sets, makeup, lighting, framing of shot, etc. Montage gave birth to film as an art (apart from photography) - creating a language. The use of montage is not clearly evident to the viewer. They accept the viewpoints of the director. View the shift in scenes as part of a whole - not individual scenes.
