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The importance of Form: introduction to film studies
Form and Content In What is Film Studies?, I stated that films have form, and distinguished between content (the subject of a film) and form (how the content is expressed). A useful way to clarify the...
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Film Style and Citizen kane
In The Importance of Film Form we considered the formal elements at the filmmaker’s command, and the the overall pattern of these elements that make up the film’s formal system. This post focuses on...
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Show, don’t tell. 35 Shots of Rum (Denis 2008)
When you have a superb filmmaker (Denis), first-class actors, blocking, cinematography and a soundtrack like this, you don’t need words to tell a story.Filed under: Access Film Studies, Film Tagged: 35...
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Film Narrative
In our discussion of form, we said that a film’s form included both narrative and stylistic elements. In this session we are going to focus on the narrative elements. Humans are ‘the storytelling...
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