The Art Film Flashcards
How is the art film distinguishable from the classical film?
Themes, formal attributes, narrative structure
Bordwell mentions what art movement in his article?
Modernism, which possesses traits that the art film has
What is Modernism a response to?
Romanticism and Realism
What is an essential trait of modernism and how does modernism function in relation to the art film?
Modernism questions art’s capacity to capture truth and abandons the goal of verisimilar representation, this leads to increased self-reflexivity and formal complexity
What kind of cinema emerges when it takes toward realism?
A cinema of formal complexity, aware of itself, overt stylization, drawing attention to its creators and construction
What is the difference between art film and avant-garde film?
Avant-garde is non narrative, extremely experimental, variable length, distributed & exhibited through alternate channels
Art film is narrative, limited in experimentation, feature length, distributed & exhibited through conventional channels
When and where was the art film’s historical emergence?
Primarily in Europe in the 1950s; response to post-war era; authority and gender roles; nature of humanity
How does the art film differ from the classical film?
Looser causality, more of an episodic structure that may or may not have a direct causal relationship with each other, refusal of closure; the motivation of characters in the art film differ (psychologically based character is explored but not explained, in all his/her complexity
How does art style differ from the classical film?
Employs style in a much more conscious fashion, calls attention to itself as a work of art; a form of expression for an artist
What are the set of viewing practices by the art film?
A pursuit of realism (psychological realism); related to the director (who functions as a narrator
Bordwell states in his article, “When in doubt, read for _____”?
Maximum ambiguity. In the art film, any confusing element can be understood in multiple different ways
Define episodic structure
A loosening of the causal chain, results in a sequence of events that are not necessarily related
What are the stylistic elements of the art film?
Discontinuous editing, stylized compositions, unusual camera movement
