on 18/4/03 6:41, Ross Macleay at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> Film like novelistic fiction is a 'tissue of quotations'...
>
> ...Several examples
> have been cited throughout this discussion, but I think it is
> valuable for an appreciation of film stylistics to see every film in its
> entirety in this way - it is not just a matter of a blatant exercise in such
> quotation - such as say NATURAL BORN KILLERS. Even a film that might seem to
> be utterly lacking
> in such blatant stylistics, a film lacking in ironic, parodic or quotational
> elements is still stylistically working as an image of narrative styles.
> Even a film that seems to be transparently just showing reality is, as the
> discussion has made clear, using
> style and showing images of filmic narration that signify such realism or
> naturalism (as in the hand held, poor quality image).
>
> I don't know if it has already been cited, but Schindler's List fits the bill.
It's an amalgam of Noir, Neo-Realism and Verite styles posing as "comitted"
"Realism". There's a great critique by Julia Hallam in her book "Ralism and
Popular Cinema"
Nicky Hamlyn.
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