It was this mass replication that led to a body of work of similar topic, style and/or narrative processes, and thus were termed, genre films. ... Kelly's coupling first with Hagen (as Lina Lamont in the Dueling Cavalier amongst other silent pictures) and then with Reynolds in Singin' in the Rain and Astaire's coupling with Charisse in The Band Wagon follows similar narrative trajectories - partnerships made and unmade throughout the temporal continuum of backstage production. ... This, amongst other cinematographic techniques servers to further perpetuate the 'production w...

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Realism then comes not from Hollywood special effects but from the narrative, the concept of the film and its themes; these themes, now widely accepted as the norm, money, drugs, class, prostitution and sex, reflect the society itself so their credibility as 'real' can't be denied. ... This links closely Bazin's idea of the multiplicity of realist inventions (Bazin, 1974; p.63) in which only through filmic techniques such deep focus, camera movement and editing that realism can ever achieved. ... Despite "Trainspotting" falling in the realist bracket of film it does also us...

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Parallel action - a device of narrative construction in which the development of two pieces of action are presented simultaneously He first started to use it all in dramatic ways to get closer into the psychology of the characters in the 1908. ... Five years spent at this studio - this formative period of artistic personality Griffith, his techniques, methods of working with an actor with the installation. ...

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