... in the early "90's bring about a new individuality in Hollywood. Presentation Script Quentin Tarantino's individual approach to cinema narrative in the 1990's revolutionised Hollywood and opened up a whole new method of cinematic approach in terms of character introduction, narrative structure and camera techniques, shown none more so than in his three cult films Reservoir Dogs (Item 1), Pulp Fiction (Item 2) and Jackie Brown (Item ... 3). Tarantino's approach to film narrative was one which "juggled three stories within a complex structure borrowed from literature and presented in chro...

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... art-house elements meanwhile apparent in these same films were mainly directed at discerning European audiences. It was hoped that the use of classical music and aesthetic cinematic techniques would convince European audieynces that Australia was indeed a place of beauty and culture. After the cringing embarrasment of the 'ocker films', the AFC genre worked hard to ... Film, Television and Video, Australian Film Commision, Sydney. • Broderick, Mick, 1993, "Heroic Apocalypse: Mad Max, Mythology and the Millennium," in Crisis Cinema: The Apocalyptic Idea in Postmodern Narrative Film, ed ...

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... from Texas isn't probably going to make it in the city. "Midnight Cowboy" was not only a breakthrough film because of the stereotypes that it bent and broke, but also the techniques used in making it. John Schlesinger was one of Hollywood's most groundbreaking directors in one of Hollywood's most creative times. Wald Salt who wrote "Midnight Cowboy" said of Schlesinger "I think ... 74). He was one of the filmmakers who wasn't afraid to break down the patterns of filmmaking and editing of the 1950's and early 1960's. Schlesinger " subverted the traditional narrative and cinematic represe...

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... as if it were an assembly line (3). What came to be known as "the factory system'standardised the product. Kuhn points out that, through mass produced techniques, films were "marked by a highly specific type of narrative structure- (Kuhn, page 11, 1985). (4) The factory system operated via the skills of individual technicians and craftsmen to produce a certain style - the "Hollywood look? The moguls ... ...

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