... of a classical film (Bordwell and Thompson 441). Many different film movements occurred at this time simultaneously, all with distinct differences in style and narrative principles, thus making it impossible to identify classical Hollywood cinema merely as occurring during a specific time range (Bordwell and Thompson 441). How then ... have a better understanding of their desires, emotions and subsequent causal motives. However, nothing caters to the viewer's understanding of the film's narrative more than the style of editing used throughout the duration of the film. The consistent use ...

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... directors and production companies were creating beautiful stories that attracted millions of viewers the post-war France unorthodox intellectuals started putting filmmaking to a new use, that of self-expression. Narrative story and author's self-expression are the most characteristic elements in the Classic Hollywood and French New Wave movements respectively. The most important source of the New Wave lay ... Blows- new style was based on elliptical editing and location shooting with hand-held cameras. Its ultimate effect was to deconstruct the narrative language that had evolved over ...

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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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