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

4. 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

5. 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)

6. Narrative

7. Alternative/post-classical Hollywood narrative

8. Peter Bogdanovich

9. 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