On 3 May 99, at 16:22, Krzysztof Jozajtis wrote:
> Whilst I would agree that the
> continuity style can, in theory, be adapted for a variety of uses, the
> issue of resources ensures certain limits to those uses in practice;
> boundaries that define where power lies. E.g. Have there been any fictional
> US presidents that aren't white and male?
I think that this is an important point. Style does have a history and
therefore (if I may be slightly crude in my argument) an ideology.
Jump-cuts (although "in themselves" they mean nothing), as part of
the system of cinematic meaning (which includes all films, made
and unmade), are historically (and therefore ideologically)
associated with the avant-garde (usually vaguely left-wing -
although the details of this example are unimportant) and thus to
use them is to use their history. There is no innocent cut, as Jean-
Luc Godard has no doubt pointed out somewhere.
David
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