Rather, advanced technology is advantageous in that it broadens the toolset available to the filmmaker from which he or she can discern which equipment and techniques are best suited to a given production. French film theorist Louis Delluc would call these filmmaking techniques and methods cinematic formal elements, or those elements unique to film as an art form, such as editing and camera movement (Jaramillo). ... Further they cannot be seen as solely preparatory, for, like later narrative films, they presented a subject for view in a uniquely cinematic way. ... The innovative use of these ...

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These complex parameters of Pure Cinema will be examined through the films of the great narrative filmmaker Alfred Hitch cock, among others. ... Fortunately we have filmmakers with respect for both the Purity of cinema as well as the new and complex narrative desires of the modern world. ... Within the entertaining plot lines of any Hitchcock film lies, embedded within the subtext and cinematic technique, another complete level of filmic enjoyment. ... This level exists within many many modern narrative sound films, including films from Hollywood and all over the world. ... The most obviou...

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This blockage plunges him (and us) into a subconscious dream world of nightmares, fantasies, and flashbacks that interpenetrate his perceptions of the present and jumble narrative logic. ... This was heavily used in his Jury Prize winning L' Avventura, where Antonioni created a film that contained seemingly aimless narrative and lacked final resolution. ... With their stunning visuals, ambiguous narratives, and still relevant focus on modern alienation, films of this period have stood the test of time. ... As the war began, The Crown Film unit merged their documentary style into narrative...

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Films are probably the closest medium we have to experiencing the inexplicable quality of the dream in our waking lives. Rich in symbol, metaphor, movement and mystery, films, like dreams, enable us to participate in another reality, and, through that participation, to be transformed. Films are li...

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