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David Bordwell Authorship and Narration in Art Cinema “The predominance of lasscal Holywood films, and consequently clas: sical mareaion, 3 historial fact, bu film history isnot + monolith, Under vanous cumstances, dere have appeared alterntie modes of aston, the most prominent one of which Isa onside in what: lows As asta osteasivedeition might be best. Eze, The Green ‘oom, Roccound His Brother. Repulson. Scenes froma Mariage Acci- dent, Teoma, Ma nuit chez Maude Re Open Cy Lave and Anarchy ‘whatever you thinkof these Bln, they form a class hat lmimakes and. ~ ‘lm viewers distinguish from Ro Bravo oa the one hand an Modhlight on the other Notall fms shown n“ar theater" wie distincenarationl procedures, bu maay do. Within» machinery of production, distribu tion, and consumption—the”“nernational art cinema,"as itis generally Known-—there exists body of lin which appeal to norms of syuhet! nd style whch shal call ar-cinema narration. We could characterize his modeby saying that he spuchet hee is notas redundant asin the classical ln that thet se permanent 2nd sp pressed gap; that exposition isdelayed and distributed oa greater dee thatthe narztion ends tobeles generically motivated, and sereraloser things. Such an atomistic list, while informative, would ac eta the underying principles that enable he viewer to comprehend the Sim, A ‘number of intelocking schemata explain the various national set ees and their instantiation in syuahet and style characters of his ‘mode of lnmaking ‘One of here broad schemata that of overt narationl commen: tary" In applying this Schema, dhe viewer looks for those moment in ‘which the naratonal ac interrupts the transmission of labula? in formstion and highlights ts own ee Style device that gain prom meron th eo lm © 88 Reppin The Unies ence with espace classical norms—sn unusual ange, a sessed bit Siting striking camera movement en unrelse shin lighting or ‘Seing a disjunction on te sound ue, or anyother breakdown of ob jective vealism which snot motivated ax sbjeciviy—can be ake 5 {he nations commentary. The marked selfconsiounesofarcinema tavaton cestes both a coherent fabula wold sad an imermitenty fren bt highly nociceable exceroalauthorigy through which we aia “Thanks tothe inrusive commentary, theslf

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