中山大学美国电影课件03TheClassicalHollywoodCinema-style.pptVIP

The Classical Hollywood Cinema：Style FENG Pengpeng Outline Casablanca and Hollywood style Conventions of Hollywood: Lighting and Continuity Editing film style Film Language Getting started: Have you ever watched a film that you find inaccessible, or heard others complain a film is inaccessible? Hollywood’s coherent style Classical Hollywood Cinema has 5 determinates of narrative structure 1. One or two protagonists 2. Desire catalyzes story 3. Antagonist 4. Cause-effect chain A causes B (effect) B causes C (effect) C causes D 5. Closure Narrative Narrative is a result of code and formalization of Hollywood film. Narrative establishes causality（因果关系）, linearity（线性发展）, and clarity（清晰度）, making Hollywood films appear coherent, unified, whole（连贯、统一、一体）. High Artifice, Invisible Art Denial and Recognition Hollywood’s transparency is only an illusion produced by great artifice to provide audience with pleasure. Most spectators are aware that films are not real. All the same time, most spectators also deny their awareness of this artifice, or the fiction of the reality, in order to participate in the reality of these fictions, because the pleasures provided by doing so prove to be both rewarding and significant. In fact, Hollywood narrative is created is made according to classical principles of Clarity 清晰 Simplicity 简单 Elegance 优雅 Order 秩序 Economy 经济 Symmetry 对称 while avoiding excess 过度 subjectivity 主观性 undue emotionalism 过分煽情 Case study: Casablanca Screening: American Cinema: “Casablanca” in Hollywood Style Section 1: According to the narrator, What makes a Hollywood movie a Hollywood movie? A. story B. style C. director D. all and more Which is not true about the “Hollywood style”? A. It is a very sophisticated art form. B. Movies of Hollywood style use highly skilled craftsmen and technological know-how. C. Audience would pay attention to the film craft such as the set design, the camera angles or the editing. D. The style is not eas