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 #:
000198
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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and spatial relations) and the comparative lengths of the shots (rhythmic relations). An examination of Impressionist editing style reveals that, like Impressionist image style, it is characterized by subjectivity: the time, Space, and rhythm of the relations among shots tend to express a character's optical viewpoint or state of mind. Temporal Relations Between Shots The possible variations in this parameter include continuous chronological relations (A/B/C), reverse temporal relations or flashbacks (C/B/A), extended temporal relations or repeats (A/A/A), compressed chronological relations. (A/C) or ellipsis;.and atemporal. relations: (e.g., fantasy). As Burch points out, continuous chronological relations and compressed chronological relations are predominant in cinema, and they are also predominant in Impressionist editing. But Impressionist style makes unusually extensive use of two other temporal possibilities of editing: that of flashbacks and that of fantasy. As the section on memory images has suggested, flashbacks are frequent in Impressionist films, occasionally comprising almost the entire narrative (La Femme de Nulle Part, Six et Demi-Onze, La Glace 4 Trois Faces). Also frequent (present in ten films) are brief flashbacks