eduardomauro wrote:
>
> written poetry is a medium. spoken aloud is another. written in
> subtitles is another, spoken aloud in voice-over with moving-images
> on screen is another, filmed declamation is another... so on.
>
> poetic cinema? it is too vague and non-usable. as we have the
> provençal poetry we have marxist poetry, we have dada...so on.
>
> so, even tarantino is poetic!
Yes. Essentially, one way to put Jakobson's principle is: the
poetic function is the figurative function. What evokes by
juxtaposition, rather than by "literality" or "linearity."
Thus, many, many things are poetic. Jakobson describes the
structural function of things like how we choose the sequence of
names in a list, or the phrase "I Like Ike," all in terms of how
we use parallelism and other aspects of expression to highlight
juxtaposition (the principle of selection projected on the axis
of combination -- or projecting the paradigmatic axis on the
syntagmatic axis).
The massive majority of cinematic techniques are poetic, by this
definition, as the visual medium must work by juxtaposition and
the closest it comes to literality is certain conventions that
represent narrative, but which still, to be sure, remain
figurative and thereby poetic.
Seth
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