Critical Approaches to Film Lesson 9 Narrative recap The Last Picture Show

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Reminder Exercise draft deadline = 6th December Exercise final deadline = 13th December Cover sheet on socs-media & on the website Submit by 4pm at Atrium Reception Use terminology Analysis not description Meaning generated through formal elements

Narrative Hollywood Art Cinema/ European Loose cause and effect Strong cause-and-effect High degree of narrative closure Psychologically rounded, goal-driven characters Character subordinate to plot Fictional world governed by spatial and temporal verisimilitude Familiar rules, codes, conventions Heterosexual romance normally present as main plot or subplot Loose cause and effect Open/ambiguous endings Ambiguous characters, often lacking defined desires/goals Plot subordinate to character Psychological or social realism Experimentation (less formulaic)

Narrative

Alternative/post-classical Hollywood narrative

Peter Bogdanovich

the style of the film the principal themes the film’s representation of the past. Narrative: whether you can identify any influences from classical Hollywood and European art cinema