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 #:
000220
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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In general, rhythmic editing is a frequent stylistic device in Impressionist films (contained in twenty films examined). No non-Impressionist narrative film uses rhythmic editing. Although several abstract films utilize rhythmic editing, it is significant that such editing is there used to convey a "pure" rhythm, not to express a character's emotional or physiological experience. To summarize: Impressionist editing utilizes characteristic strategies for handling temporal, spatial, and rhythmic relations between shots. Apart from conventional methods of indicating temporal relations between shots; Impressionst editing frequently suggests memory and fantasy by means of intercut flashbacks or fantasies. Spatially, Impressionist editing sometimes builds up a homogeneous block of Space "synthetically" from shots of isolated elements. More frequently, Impressionism utilizes the glance/object pattern to define space as well as to indicate psychological states. Finally, rhythmic editing frequently indicates a character's sense of the pace and tempo of an experience. For the Impressionist, then, editing offers a Significant means of expressively trans forming the nature which the camera records.