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Title: Narrative cinema


1
Narrative cinema
  • In earliest days, cinema not used for
    story-telling (Lumières, Méliès)
  • Cinematic narrative vs. other forms/media
    particular to cinematic narrative are (1)
    collective production (2) allocation of budget
    (3) requirement for technical apparatus (4)
    distribution and marketing/advertising (5)
    certification/censorship

2
Film narrative the classic narrative model
  • structured around equilibrium gt disruption gt new
    equilibrium
  • events between also subject to ordering,
    typically according to cause gt effect
  • classic narrative governed by verisimilitude
    (vraisemblance)
  • classic narrative driven forward by central
    character or hero, who often brings about
    resolution

3
Codes of classic narrative 1
  • story must be kept moving
  • causal links between events have to be made clear
  • location(s)/sets must be credibly constructed
  • characters must be individuated, fleshed-out
    agents

4
Codes of classic narrative 2
  • editing is key mechanism of control
  • continuity editing maintains appearance of
    continuous space and time in finished film.
    Viewer can read film without conscious effort
  • establishing shots and shot-reverse shot e.g. in
    Les Diaboliques

5
Variations on classic narrative
  • device of delay ( withholding of knowledge) in
    Les Diaboliques. Begins from moment Lasalles
    body is disposed of.
  • Flashback in Chocolat 80 of film

6
Flashback ( retour en arrière)
  • juxtaposes present and past - present dissolves
    to past
  • cinematic flashback more efficient than
    literature or theatre
  • dissolve (fondu) takes place through voiceover or
    in image
  • concepts implied are (1) memory (subjective) (2)
    history (shared, recorded)

7
Flashback in Chocolat
  • to address enigma Why is France in Cameroun?,
    answered at end of film
  • is story in itself (becomes the film). Then
    memory becomes history again France is in
    Cameroun to find out if she still belongs there
    (no).
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