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French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style (December 1974)

Record Details:

Title:
French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style
Date:
December 1974
Publisher:
University of Iowa
Volume:
French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style (Dissertation, 1974)
Leaf #:
000172
Language:
English
Collection:
Global Cinema
Format:
dissertations
Contributor:
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Doctoral dissertation entitled, "French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style," by film scholar David Bordwell. Submitted to the University of Iowa in 1974. Document is scanned from the David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson papers, archived at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
Date Added:
May 23, 2024
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159 Impressionist films examined. Sometimes such mobile fram-.ing will be used to establish a scene,. as when at the beginning of L'Inondation the camera tracks forward through the village square to establish the locale or when La ae Glace 4 Trois Faces opens with a tracking shot down a city street. A reverse tracking shot may also be used to establish a scene: in La Roue, the camera tracks back from a sleeping man and moves through a doorway to the main room, where other men eat and drink; in Le Brasier Ardent, one scene opens with a medium shot of the husband which tracks back to reveal him at his desk. More frequently, camera movement independent of the subject will be used to direct attention without violating the temporal or Spatial flow (as editing might): the camera takes ona revelatory role. «For example; in Finis Terrae, a crane shot exposes a church behind a hill. In Le Diable dans la Ville, a swift tracking movement up to whispering men brings them suddenly into prominence. in L'Inhumaine, very fast panning shots to posters announcing Claire's concert build up a Kinetic rhythm. In L'Homme du Large, we learn that the mother has taken sick by means of a panning shot from the daughter by the wall to the ailing mother in bed. In L'Argent, many of the most dramatic uses of such camera movement occur: the camera