Art Cinema

Art Cinema

• The first period: between 1914 and 1925

- silent cinema: e.g. Lang, Dryer, Eisenstein

• The second period: between 1960s and 1970s

- sound cinema : e.g. Bergman, Antonioni, Kurosawa, Tarkovsky

Stylistic Devices of Art Cinema

• Unusual camera angles

• Disorientating editing

• Striking camera movement

• Unrealistic shift in lighting or settings

• Disjunctive soundtrack

Art Cinema

• Loose, ambiguous narratives

• Secondary importance of action

• Slower pace

• Engagement with main concerns of modernism

• Therefore requires a different viewing context

Art Cinema (Bordwell)

• Problematic relationship between plot and story

• Plot: numerous gaps, delayed exposition, non-linear, and often lacks a cause-effect structure