"The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice"

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This paper examines David Bordwell's critical article "The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice." It shows how Borwell aims to propose that the 'art cinema' is actually a real form of film practice, with a historical background and distinct procedures that are taken in order to generate its formation. The paper examines Bordwell's ideas and the examples that he provides.

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"The article then goes on to explain the use of narrative intelligence. Usually the narrator makes it known that he or she is well informed of the future events that the characters in the story will experience. Using this knowledge, the film may use various techniques such as the flash-forward to exercise the narrator's power over the viewer. In this way, Bordwell explains that the art cinema is more focused on plot rather than story. Therefore the who, how and why are central to progressing the plot further in art cinema. The conclusion of art films is then discussed. Bordwell, outlining the fact that the characters lack particular goals explains that because of this, the story itself will quite often lack a particular ending. Or at least one with a solid, understandable resolution. This assists Bordwell in implying that art cinema is just a reflection of life itself, which also has no clear resolution."

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