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"Following the highly regarded, formally-oriented, approach set out in Bordwell and Thompson?s Film Art, this course explores how form and narrative shape our experience of film. Form relates to how we experience feeling and meaning as film audiences; it also relates to the formal properties of film (such as repetition and variation of distinct motifs or elements, development, and the overall effects of unity and disunity). Narrative relates to the structure of plots and the flow of story information in cinema. Once students understand the formal and narrative properties of film they learn to assess how the highly refined use of techniques - mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound - function in the overall system of individual works of film art. Thus students fulfill a main objective of this course: understanding how formal, narrative and technical elements in film collectively function as a language and contribute to the establishing of distinct film styles.
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