JCM312/Narrative Structure

Classical Hollywood cinema

Television discusses seven principal characteristics of classical Hollywood cinema:

1. Single protagonist
2. Exposition
3. Motivation
4. Narrative enigma
5. Cause-effect chain
   • Story time versus screen time--in terms of duration and order
6. Climax
7. Resolution/Denouement--compare exposition and denouement

Does Day for Night qualify as a classical film? Why or why not? Template:Gallery

Signs of character

1. Viewer foreknowledge
2. Character name
3. Appearance
4. Objective correlative
5. Dialogue
6. Lighting and videography or cinematography
7. Action

Signs of performance

1. Vocal
2. Facial
3. Gestural
4. Corporeal

Day for Night cast

• Wikipedia:Jacqueline Bisset as Julie
• Wikipedia:Valentina Cortese as Severine
• Wikipedia:Dani as Liliane
• Wikipedia:Alexandra Stewart as Stacey
• Wikipedia:Jean-Pierre Aumont as Alexandre
• Wikipedia:Jean Champion as Bertrand
• Wikipedia:Jean-Pierre Léaud as Alphonse
• Wikipedia:François Truffaut as (Director) Ferrand
• Wikipedia:Nathalie Baye as Joelle
• Wikipedia:David Markham as Doctor Nelson
• Wikipedia:Zénaïde Rossi as Madame Lajoie, Gaston's wife
• Wikipedia:Xavier Saint-Macary as Christian, Alexandre's lover
• Bernard Menez as the Property Man

Bibliography

1. Jeremy G. Butler, Television: Critical Methods and Applications (New York: Routledge, 2012).
2. David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction, 9th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010).

External links

1. Frame grabs from Day for Night.
2. Wes Anderson American Express Commercial (Day for Night parody, password protected)
3. TV Tropes: listing of numerous narrative conventions.