Narrative story and author's self-expression are the most characteristic elements in the Classic Hollywood and French New Wave movements respectively. ... To further complicate matters, there are two stories contained within the one narrative of "Breathless. ... Its ultimate effect was to deconstruct the narrative language that had evolved over the previous 60 years and to create a reflexive cinema, whose techniques provided a continuous comment on its own making. ... The auteur theory manifested in the both movies celebrated the movie director as "author," much in the manner that a nove...

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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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The filmic technique of cross cutting displays nostalgic scenes that depict the farmer's former lifestyle interpolated with the his new urban setting creating an emotional narrative which yearns for the days of old. ...

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Kuhn points out that, through mass produced techniques, films were "marked by a highly specific type of narrative structure- (Kuhn, page 11, 1985). (4) The factory system operated via the skills of individual technicians and craftsmen to produce a certain style - the "Hollywood look? ...

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