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Critical Approaches to Film. Lesson 9 Narrative recap The Last Picture Show. http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-worst-movie-endings. Reminder. Exercise draft deadline = 6 th December Exercise final deadline = 13 th December Cover sheet on socs -media & on the website - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Critical Approaches to Film
Lesson 9Narrative recap
The Last Picture Show
http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-worst-movie-endings
ReminderExercise draft deadline = 6th December
Exercise final deadline = 13th December
Cover sheet on socs-media & on the website
Submit by 4pm at Atrium Reception
Use terminology
Analysis not description
Meaning generated through formal elements
Narrative
• Strong cause-and-effect• High degree of narrative closure• Psychologically rounded, goal-
driven characters• Character subordinate to plot• Fictional world governed by
spatial and temporal verisimilitude
• Familiar rules, codes, conventions• Heterosexual romance normally
present as main plot or subplot
Art Cinema/ European • Loose cause and effect• Open/ambiguous endings• Ambiguous characters, often
lacking defined desires/goals • Plot subordinate to character• Psychological or social realism• Experimentation (less
formulaic)
Hollywood
Narrative
Alternative/post-classical Hollywood narrative
Peter Bogdanovich
the style of the filmthe principal themesthe film’s representation of the past. Narrative: whether you can identify any influences from classical Hollywood and European art cinema