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Critical Approaches to Film

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

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Critical Approaches to Film

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  1. Critical Approaches to Film Lesson 9 Narrative recap The Last Picture Show

  2. http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-worst-movie-endings

  3. Reminder Exercise 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

  4. Narrative Hollywood 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) • 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

  5. Narrative

  6. Alternative/post-classical Hollywood narrative

  7. Peter Bogdanovich

  8. the style of the film • the principal themes • the film’s representation of the past. • Narrative: whether you can identify any influences from classical Hollywood and European art cinema

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