Critical Debates – the Realist vs the Expressive

  1. What is your understanding of a realist mode of film making? a film is realistic when we see it as the photographic record, not of the Events Filmed, but of the events that make up the Story Told. Example – Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016)

2. What is your example of an expressive mode of film making? It is primarily in the qualities of its images and sounds that the expressivity of the cinema must be sought. Example – Trainspotting (Boyle, 1996)

3. To what Extent does Eisenstein’s work merge the two ideas and how does he do this is Strike? e.g montage. Example – The intercutting between the expressive and realist mode, e.g tonal montage – spilling ink on the map to represent bloodshed.

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