Chapter 7: Modes of Screen Reality

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Chapter 7: Modes of Screen Reality

SCREEN REALITY Modes: Ways that cinema configures visual, physical, social and/or psychological reality Modes vary across different films and groups of films Different modes can co-exist within a film Co-constructed by viewers Changes over time

Basic Modes Realism Expressionism Fantasy Self-reflexivity

Realism Ordinary Fictional Realism Historical Realism Naturalistic Visual Style Linear Narrative Structure Plausible Character Behavior Historical Realism art direction, costume design Documentary Realism A pro-filmic referent Absence of Fictionalizing Elements

Expressionism Classic German Expressionism (1920s) As Contemporary Style Hitchcock Visual Distortions as Psychological Correlate Can co-exist with a Realist frame

Fantasy Settings, characters, subjects placed in alternate realms than viewer’s own Established Through Production Design and Special Effects Showcasing cinema technology Making fantasy credible: Shooting on real locations Accumulating narrative detail Building perceptual realism into production design and special effects

Self-Reflexivity Self-consciousness (of cinema as cinema) of style or theme Cinema acknowledged as an artifice Two forms: Comic Woody Allen, Austin Powers Didactic Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee

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