JCM312/Narrative Structure

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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]

  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]

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

Day for Night cast

  • Jacqueline Bisset: Julie
  • Valentina Cortese: Severine
  • Dani: Liliane
  • Alexandra Stewart: Stacey
  • Jean-Pierre Aumont: Alexandre
  • Jean Champion: Bertrand
  • Jean-Pierre Léaud: Alphonse
  • François Truffaut: Ferrand, the director
  • Nike Arrighi: Odile
  • Nathalie Baye: Joelle
  • Maurice Seveno: TV Reporter
  • David Markham: Doctor Nelson
  • Bernard Menez: Bernard, the Prop Man

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Richard Dyer, Stars

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.