TA 2054 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Classical Hollywood Cinema, Film Noir
4 Apr 2016
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Ani-narraive a narraive style that tends, paradoxically, toward eliminaing narraive by employing lots of digression, avoiding a clear hierarchy of narraive events, and by suppressing the casual connecions among events. Classical hollywood narraive type of narraive prevalent in hollywood ilms of the 1930s to. The plot features a clear, main line of acion (with subordinate subplots), marked by a main character"s pursuit of a goal, in which the story events are chained in ight casual relaionships. The conclusion cleanly resolves all major story issues. Convenion a familiar, customary way of represening characters, story situaions, or images. Convenions result from agreements between ilmmakers and viewers to accept certain representaions as valid. Counter-narraive a narraive style that presents a sequence of events out of order someimes working backwards, someimes switching between lashbacks and present day. Deviant plot structures a narraive whose design and organizaion fails to conform to viewers" expectaions regarding what is proper or permissible.
