CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marcel Duchamp, Art Director, Perfusion
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Bordwell and thompson define film form as (cid:498)the overall set of relationships among a film"s parts. (cid:499) (cid:523)5(cid:884)(cid:524) Form is the property of the film, form has no effect if its not being actively perceived by a films viewer. Form comes to produce meaning, whenever we engage in formal analysis what is at issue is a dynamic relationship between the work of art and secondly the audience which addresses in that work of art. Formal analysis assumes an active perceiver and an art work that provides cues perpetual choices about form. As a viewer you are responding to it at every. Bordwell and thompson on form: (cid:498))f you are a director or screenwriter, you face moment. (cid:499) (cid:523)5(cid:883)(cid:524) Meanings are created in the interaction between film and viewer. Each film has multiple levels of meaning: implicit meaning, symptomatic meaning, explicit meaning and referential meaning.
