Pascal
I found the remarks about Bakhtin particularly appropriate in this context.
His thinking was a revelation on narrative style, and it is always
instructive to think about film in the light of what he said about
novelistic poetics.
To narrate by a narrative that shows images of screen styles and their ways
of telling, as well as showing the acts and events that the shots depict and
the argument structure of the editing, is in one sense a formula for a
parodic kind of cinema. Even for a parodic style that is itself normative.
Yet it is still, I think, the essence of screen poetics. Cinematic art is
not just an image of life and things, it is an image of cinematic life.
Ross
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