CIN374Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Hollywood Cinema
15 Sep 2018
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Historians have suggested that classical filmmaking begins and ends at different points. Others suggest that the classical paradigm continues uninterrupted to this day. A transhistorical term that can be defined by examining aesthetic, economic, ideological and technological aspects of filmmaking. Realism as long as a world has presented in which certain logics occur, it can be understood. Self-effacing editing and compositional strategies films try to mask elements of production. Emotional appeal the audience is invested in the characters through the emotional connections presented. No single hollywood film is the classical system it is an outgrowth or an illustration of the system. Classical cinema constitutes a paradigm of bounded alternatives and choices within a rule system governed by story clarity and motivation. These represent the technical elements available to filmmakers such as cutting and compositional techniques. The organization of the devices to convey three features of the classical cinema: narrative logic, cinematic time, cinematic space.
