non-technical books on filmmaking

Post by **sunrise** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:34 pm

It is a very good explanation, but very limited as to describe what actually happens in the movie viewing process. The spectator's comprehension of the film's narrative cannot be seperated his emotional responses as Bordwell claims. Mind and body cannot be seperated, since the body continually provides the human brain with emotional values. This process is unconcious and not something that the spectator can control by consiously follow cues according to expectations of a narrative style. Instead it is an unconsious process motivated by fundamental aspects of the mental architecture of humans. A narrative is the basic way we, as humans, make sense of the world around us.

michael

Post by **steve hyde** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:50 pm

"Essay's on Chaplin" from Bazin is a great read - from there I went out to the web and found this:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSp ... tator.html

Steve

Post by **sunrise** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:56 pm

Steve,

you mention Bazin a few times. What is it that makes you read him so much?

michael

Post by **steve hyde** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:24 pm

..Curiosity of course.

Actually, I'm just getting around to reading him now. His views on Chaplin are very insightful and his writing style is straight-ahead. (unlike most if the French writers I have read!!)

Steve

Post by **npcoombs** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:16 pm

steve hyde wrote:..Curiosity of course. Actually, I'm just getting around to reading him now. His views on Chaplin are very insightful and his writing style is straight-ahead. (unlike most if the French writers I have read!!)

Steve

Thats because the French are light years ahead of what passes for cultural analysis in the Axis of Anglo Saxonia.

Pick up 'The Evil Demon in Images' by Jean Baudrillard and you'll realise how truly arid and baron analytical aesthetics is. Not everything is about politics, identity, representation, repression etc.. COntemporary French philosophy aims to affect as much as represent or dissect. It is art in itself and it collapses barriers between analysis on the original construction of new understanding and inspiration. This is more politically powerful than endlessly picking the last meat off the bone of some injustice here or there.

Post by **steve hyde** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:32 pm

Thanks Nathan. I'll do that. I am currently waiting on my copy of "The Conspiracy of Art" from the library....

Steve