CIN105Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Flashforward
ART “The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice”
“distinct branch of the cinematic institution”
according to Bordwell, “possessing a definite historical existence, a set of formal
conventions, and implicit viewing procedures”
“descends from the early FILM D’ART and such silent national cinema schools as
German Expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit, and French Impression” (comes from many
different places/locations/countries during this time in history)
appeared distinctly “after WWII when the dominance of the Hollywood cinema was
beginning to wane”
films began to be made for international audiences
trade-off “American films sponsored foreign production, and foreign films helped
American exhibitors fill screen time”
“stylistic devices and thematic motifs may differ from director to director, [whereas] the
overall functions of style and theme remain remarkably constant in the art cinema as a
whole” (narrative + stylistic devices work together to create this mode/genre of film)
“IN THE CLASSICAL CINEMA, NARRATIVE FORM MOTIVATES CINEMATIC
REPRESENTATION”, cause and effect chain (form helps to structure the plot/story)
strays from the pre-established, more classic elements of film (mise en scène, editing,
etc.) by comparing these elements between the two types of film, we can begin to see
the differences when considering art films
LESS CAUSE AND EFFECT LINKAGE OF EVENTS (EX. L’AVENTURA [the
character] “Anna is lost and never found”)
ART CINEMA MOTIVATES ITS NARRATIVES BY TWO PRINCIPLES; REALISM
AND AUTHORIAL EXPRESSIVITY (on one hand it is realistic and shows real
locations, sexuality, and psychologically complex characters/on the other hand,
It is classical in its reliance upon psychological causation
Temporal and spatial construction (from classical cinema) is violated by the intrusion of
an “unpredictable and contingent daily reality or as the subjective reality of complex
characters”
Lacks identifiable stars and familiar genres—author becomes the textual force who
communicates and expresses (“uses the concept of authorship to unify the text); the
author comes through in the film by deviations from the classical canon in filming and
editing (shaping narrative intelligence), etc.
Devices such as flash-forward, etc.
“life lacks the neatness of art and this art knows it”
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