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Critical Approaches to Film
Lesson 9
Narrative recap
The Last Picture Show
http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-worst-movie-endings
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
• 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
Art Cinema/ European
• 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)
Hollywood
Alternative/post-classical Hollywood
narrative
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