A-Level Film Studies - Daniel Kallin

Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994) - Resist conventional narrative structures - Familiar narrative structure seen with:     - Todorov's equilibrium     - Three Act structure     - Cause and effect     - Linear     - Classical Hollywood... ends on "Hollywood kiss" - Storytelling; new ways of telling the story - Multi-stranded, e.g. Tarantino's Four Rooms  - forerunner of his cinematic style and techniques - Intertitles at start of each storyline - Black comedy, graphic violence, dialogue and                                                                      monologues 1. The diner - 3 2. Jules and Vincent - 1 3. Vincent and Mia - 5  4. Butch - 6 5. Jules and Vincent and Mr Wolfe - 2 6. Back to the diner - 4 'Honey Bunny & Pum...

The cohesive interpolation of realism and expressionism has proved itself to be a key tenement of Soviet montage cinema, and other European equivalents, where an exaggerated reality can be used to propagandise Communist ideals. Within Man With a Movie Camera , Vertov uses expressionist editing to forefront the achievements of the Soviet Union, basing his visuals on everyday life in Soviet cities, prompting comparisons between man and machine. Vigo, in A Propos de Nice , takes the city of Nice and employs a critical perspective on the class divisions there, using techniques from German Expressionism to emphasise the grotesqueness of the actions of the idle classes. Where the reality of the poverty and disparities in Nice is shocking enough if presented naturally, expressionist imagery and editing allows Vertov to promote Communist ideals as a solution to these problems. Man With a Movie Camera implements realism with expressionism through a combination of visuals and editing, owing ...