... 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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... spectator and then move into filmic space - combining the immediate contact of the theatre with the mobility of perspective of the camera (Feuer ibid.). This, amongst other cinematographic techniques servers to further perpetuate the 'production within a production' experience for the audience whilst still abiding and utilising the language of cinema. Spontaneity seems to be at the crux ... profitable productions during the reign of the studio system. Thus audiences were repetitively exposed to Western, musical genres etc., and the emergence of audience expectation of genre films (the n...

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... filmmakers have opposed Hollywoods dominant mode of representation, one must first attempt to define what this dominant mode of representaion is. To do this we look at the Classical Hollywood Narrative structure which was dominant between 1915 and 1960. In This we will usually have one or two protagonists. The desire or needs held by such protaganists is what catylizes the ... perhaps it may be implied the the main protagonist will go on to live a long and prosperous life. Aesthetically there is also some continuity in the world of the classical narrative structure. The use of three poi...

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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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