Film 2120 1st Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Last Lecture I. Art Cinema aesthetics II. The French new wave III. Film culture in France IV. Cahiers du Cinema V. Centre National de la cinematagraphicVI. Film influences Outline of Current Lecture VII. Art Cinema-narrationVIII. Art Cinema-space/timeIX. Art Cinema-sound/imageX. Art Cinema: ReflexivityXI. Art Cinema: MotivationXII. AuthorshipXIII. AmbiguityXIV. Levels of meaningCurrent LectureI. Art Cinema-narrationA. Episodic structure: the individual parts aren’t linked together B. unclearly motivated characters-they don’t really have goals C. delayed exposition(backstory)-details of the past of characters 1. Breathless: wait the whole movie to find out who Patricia and Michel is and in we never really get to know Michel’s pastD. Opening endings 1. Example: Michel dies in Breathless but no moral closure to the film, leaves you with more questions then answers E. Ellipsis-huge hole plots in the story, in art cinema there is a lot of ellipsis, we don’t get explanation for things 1. Example: 400 blows, at the end of the movie a boy is seen running for a couple of minutes and he ends up at the beach2. We don’t know what will happen to him, it’s ambiguous II. Art Cinema-space/time These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.A. Discontinuities and gaps in editing-violate 30 degree rule and there are a lot of jump cuts B. Unmarked flashbacks and flashfowards C. Lack of establishing shots D. Long takes-not always sure where to look or what the characters are doing 1. Example: La Guerre este finie(Resnals)-unclear flashfoward/flashback III. Art cinema-sound/image A. Synchronization/fidelityB. Music C. Example: Weekend(Goddard 1967)-digetic sound IV. Art Cinema: ReflexivityA. IntertextualityB. Reference to the film/medium itselfV. Art Cinema: MotivationA. Realism: Hollywood and its conventions are NOT somehow more “natural” than any other formB. realism: something in a way that does not get seen in Hollywood films VI. AuthorshipA. Films are marked as made by someone B. Refers to themselves (reflexivity) and their own making VII. AmbiguityA. Related to realismB. Not everything in life is fixed or has a “point” or clear cause C. Forces audience to interpret what it meansD. Promotes the searchVIII. Levels of meaning A. Referential-given subject matter of the film (peoples name)B. Explicit-what is the film about C. Implicit-goes beyond explicit to impose a further meaning-struggle to find a pointto their lives D. Symptomatic-expands the implicit meanings to a wider form of societal
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