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Mean Streets & Modernism The modernist project in New Hollywood includes the following: ● A questioning/reconfiguring of US mainstream cinema on a technical and narrative/thematic level ● An examination of interiority of characters ● A general revision of the hero figure ● Self-reflexive style of film-making Part 1: How does Mean Streets exemplify a modernist text? Part 2: How does Mean Streets announce itself as a ‘new’ type of film/ a modernist film? Look at the introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0KMxLvsvLI
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Mean Streets & Modernism
The modernist project in New Hollywood includes the following:
● A questioning/reconfiguring of US mainstream cinema on a technical and narrative/thematic level
● An examination of interiority of characters● A general revision of the hero figure● Self-reflexive style of film-making
Part 1: How does Mean Streets exemplify a modernist text?
Part 2: How does Mean Streets announce itself as a ‘new’ type of film/ a modernist film? Look at the introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0KMxLvsvLI