Similar objections could be raised at later points, especially when Chatman proposes "cinematic narrator" to describe an implicit agency governing narrational devices in film. Here and elsewhere, however, my reservations should be understood as a sign of my full engagement with the book. Chatman is a reasonable and generous thinker who encourages debate, and who writes brilliantly about the novels and films he admires. Among other things, he offers a spirited reassessment of Wayne Booth's concept of the "implied author"; a useful commentary on literary versus cinematic types of narration; a fascinating analysis of "aleatory narrative" in a Benson and Hedges cigarette advertisement; and a provocative discussion of the film adaptation of John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman. In each case, Chatman prompts his readers to rethink their fundamental assumptions. His work is highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand the complex logics and possibilities of narrative. [End Page 430]
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Inconclusion, we can speak of adaptation in two instances. The first one dealswith the film adaptation of literary works and is a trans-textual andtransmedial practice. The second meaning of adaption, which I named, ratherpretentiously, the genealogicalanalysis of travelling theoretical models, should be regarded as a workof aesthetics, poetics and art theory. It is this type of adaption that has ledus to think of theories of narration in different types of media or what todaywe call transmedial narration or transmedia storytelling. Like literary themes,concepts are also used and reused, and the displacement of a concept from thetheoretical framework it was originally created in can be a creative practiceand can lead to the birth of new areas of study.
if(typeof performance.mark !== 'undefined')performance.mark("Product_Tabs_loading_start");Related collections and offersProduct DetailsAbout the AuthorTable of ContentsWhat People Are SayingProduct DetailsISBN-13:9780231060554Publisher:Columbia University Press Publication date:02/19/1987Series:King's Crown Paperback SeriesEdition description:Reprint Pages:506Sales rank:916,321Product dimensions: 9.75(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)Age Range:18 YearsAbout the AuthorDavid Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin ThompsonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Part One: The classical Hollywood style, 1917-60 1. An excessively obvious cinema 2. Story causality and motivation 3. Classical narration 4. Time in the classical film 5. Space in the classical film 6. Shot and scene 7. The bounds of difference Part Two: The Hollywood mode of production to 1930 8. The Hollywood mode of production: its conditions of existence 9. Standardization and differentiation: the reinforcement and dispersion of Hollywood's practices 10. The director system: management in the first years 11. The director-unit system: management of multiple-unit companies after 1909 12. The central producer system: centralized management after 1914 13. The division and order of production: the subdivision of the work from the first years through the 1920s Part Three: The formulation of the classical style, 1909-28 14. From primitive to classical 15. The formulation of the classical narrative 16. The continuity system 17. Classical narrative space and the spectator's attention 18. The stability of the classical approach after 1917 Part Four: Film style and technology to 1930 19. Technology, style and mode of production 20. Initial standardization of the basic tehnology 21. Major technological changes of the 1920s 22. The Mazda tests of 1928 23. The introduction of sound Part Five: The Hollywood mode of production, 1930-60 24. The labor-force, financing and the mode of production 25. The producer-unit system: management by specialization after 1931 26. The package-unit system: unit management after 1955 Part Six: Film style and technology, 1930-60 27. Deep-focus cinematography 28. Technicolor 29. Widescreen processes and stereophonic sound Part Seven: Historical implications of the classical Hollywood cinema 30. Since 1960: the persistence of the mode of film practice 31. Alternative modes of film practice Envoi Appendix A: The unbiased sample Appendix B: A brief synopsis of the structure of the United States film industry, 1896-1960 Appendix C: Principal Structures of the US film industry, 1894-1930 Appendix D: Lighting plots and descriptions Notes Select bibliography Photograph credits Index
David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a master's degree and a doctorate in film from the University of Iowa. His books include "The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer"(University of California Press, 1981), "Narration in the Fiction Film"(University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), "Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema"(Princeton University Press, 1988), "Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema"(Harvard University Press, 1989), "The Cinema of Eisenstein"(Harvard University Press, 1993), "On the History of Film Style"(Harvard University Press, 1997), "Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment"(Harvard University Press, 2000), "Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging"(University of California Press, 2005), "The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies"(University of California Press, 2006), and"The Poetics of Cinema"(Routledge, 2008). He has won a University Distinguished Teaching Award and was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Copenhagen. His we site is www.davidbordwell.net.
Why should cinema scholars pursue DH approaches when, seemingly, they are so fraught with challenges? One answer to the question can be found in the methodology of a groundbreaking analysis in our field that took place before the first wave of DH scholarship in the 1990s and early 2000s and led to the definition of the group style known as classical Hollywood cinema . Associated with narrative films made under the Hollywood studio system between roughly 1916 and 1960 and marked by certain recurrent features of narrative, narration, and visual style, classical Hollywood cinema has come to define our understanding of Golden Age cinema and to serve as a benchmark for scholarly inquiries into film form and style. Remarkably, however, the 100 films that made up the sample for the study comprised just a small percentage (roughly .006%) of the approximately 15,000 films produced by American studios between 1915 and 1960 (10). It is eye-opening to consider that such an axiomatic account of American film style and history excludes over 99% of the films produced in the period under investigation, even if, as Bordwell asserts, Hollywood classical cinema is "excessively obvious", having documented its style in its own technical manuals, memoirs, and publicity handouts (3). Today's film scholars may very well wonder how our understanding of this monolithic group style might evolve if we were to radically increase the sample size using DH approaches that didn't yet exist in the mid 1980s.
As of this writing, the Kinolab team is testing its new platform and seeking user feedback on ways to improve it. We are also taking steps to ensure the thoughtful, intentional growth of Kinolab's clip collection and the project's long-term sustainability. These include, among others, 1) expanding the project's advisory board to include members broadly representative of an array of scholarly interests in film language and narrative, including sound, color, and computer-generated imagery (the use of 3D computer graphics for special effects), but also animated media, national and regional cinemas, horror, ecocinema, science fiction, silent cinema, television, queer cinema, classical Hollywood cinema, transnational cinema, and/or issues related to diversity and inclusion, among others; 2) independently developing and/or contributing to existing efforts to create a robust data model for film language; 3) encouraging colleagues to contribute to Kinolab by supporting the ongoing work of clip curation at their home institutions, either by internally funding undergraduate or graduate student clip curation or through student crowdsourcing in their classrooms; 4) testing and implementing where appropriate machine vision technologies such as those in development at the Media Ecology Project and the Distant Viewing Lab; 5) developing relationships with likeminded groups such as Critical Commons, Domitor, the Media History Digital Library and the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, among others; and 6) developing national organizational partnerships with the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and/or the University Film and Video Association. Through these and other strategies, we hope to become a genuinely inclusive platform for the analysis of narrative media clips, built from the ground up by the scholars and students using it.
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