The apparatus theory proposed by Jean - Louis Baudry and Christian Metz posits that spectators in
classical narrative cinema are manipulated by the images and, deprived of the ability to critically contemplate the act of viewing, confuse film illusion and reality.
Through the montage of fragmentation of different natures, episodes, moments and brief shots, Der siebente Kontinent's first - generation modernist practices challenge the illusionism of
classical narrative cinema and refuse the psychological elucidation of characters.
In order to force the spectator to be aware of the cinematic apparatus, Haneke creates a new route, differing at the same time from
the classical narrative cinema, which suspends the spectator's awareness, the first - generation modernism of benign reflexivity, characterised by Chantal Akerman's cinema, and the second - generation modernism of aggressive reflexivity, exemplified by Jean - Luc Godard's Le Vent d'Est (1970).
He works outside of the usual representational approaches that underpin
classical narrative cinema and transcends artistic boundaries.
Not exact matches
Allan Cameron's Modular
Narratives in Contemporary Cinema, the subject of this review, does something similar — for the most part — to Puzzle Films and seems to sit clearly on the side of the debate that understands there is indeed something unique about the complex narratives of contemporary cinema, arguing that these films are different not only from classical Hollywood films but also from the art cinema and experimental films they often
Narratives in Contemporary
Cinema, the subject of this review, does something similar — for the most part — to Puzzle Films and seems to sit clearly on the side of the debate that understands there is indeed something unique about the complex
narratives of contemporary cinema, arguing that these films are different not only from classical Hollywood films but also from the art cinema and experimental films they often
narratives of contemporary
cinema, arguing that these films are different not only from
classical Hollywood films but also from the art
cinema and experimental films they often resemble.