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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2008
You know, I’ve thought about this all weekend, and I couldn’t decide my answer to the question posed at the end of class on Thursday (Who is the protagonist?) until I finished reading Bordwell’s “Three Dimensions of Narrative Film.” On page 90, Bordwell lays out a series of statements that generally categorize who a protagonist […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2008
After perusing Aaron and Leslie’s blog posts about Barton Fink, particularly Aaron’s point concerning the impossibility of separating the objective fabula from the subjective, I remembered a website that I found when looking for help to uncover the truth behind Barton Fink, and I figured that I would pass it on to the class. I’ve […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2008
The first idea that came to mind directly relates to the readings we’ve had to read for this week’s class: Voice-over narration in Film Noirs and Neo-noirs. I conceived of this idea before reading the Kozloff article and then realizing that on the first page of his article he basically outlines the type of paper […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2008
The notion of slant and filter as defined in Chapman’s article has sunk in quite a bit, but there are some instances in films that we’ve seen where I try to apply the terms and just get plain old befuddled. So we’re all on the same page, let me copy down the definitions Chapman provides: […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 2nd, 2008
Being prompted by Professor Mittell to engage with the play between syuzhet and style, I stared at and scruntized the screen and discovered one thing: RED is everywhere in The Sixth Sense. Bordwell speaks at length to the relationship between syuzhet and style, stating that “Film technique is customarily used to perform syuzhet tasks – […]
