El cine

El cine

1. 2. Influences of cinema on literature

   • 1950s some books appeared dealing with techniques of American novels and novelists (especially those belonging to the Lost Generation)
     • Claude Edmonde Magni's L'age du Romain Américain
       • She proposed new techniques and structures a search for an absolute objectivism, development of an exterior mood,
     • Robert Richardson analyses some of the mechanisms that are used by John Dos Passos
   • Reference corpus for literature.
     • Stereotypes, behaviors and even linguistic accent
   • 2..1. Cinematographic procedures in literature
     • The novel has taken advantage of cinematographic devices to solve some narrative problems.
     • Cinema is an art of montag.
       • Herbert Read- The most distinctive quality of writing is its visuality..
     • Non-verbal communication of characters has changed due to the cinema influence: modification of words, modification of suprasegmental features, modification of kinetic behavior and the treatment of space in its relation to the physical and optical movements of the characterss

2. 1.Historical adaptations between cinema and literature

   • 1.1. Adaptations of literary works into films
     • Making movies out of literary works
     • Linked
     • Transformation (reduce or condense)
     • Cinematographic realism.
     • Stimulus/ new language/ playwrights valuing just similarities.
   • 1.2. Theatre and cinema
     • How it started
     • David Wark Griffith 1920s
       • abstraction, show
         • Variable distance in the scene
         • Division of the image in separate levels
         • Montage
         • Separate shots
       • Actors not photogenic
       • Sound added to images
     • Influence of the cinema diminished
   • 1.3. Writers and the cinema
     • Approach - continuous changes (Faulkner, Fitsgerald, Hemingway)
   • 1.4. Cinema and literary critics.

3. 3. Cinema and the novel

   • Comparison between the cinema and literature is only possible if we take into consideration the level of contents
   • Narrative skeleton- common- comparisons.
   • Their similarities overshadow their differences.
   • 3.1. Common features of the novel and cinema narrative
     • Montage
     • Close-ups.
     • General shots of descriptive movements.
     • Treatment of time and succession of events.
     • Narrative mood and the articulation of the point of view.
     • Classical cinema took advantage if the efforts done previously by silent movies.
     • 1. Use of techniques in literary narrative did not happen all of a sudden.
       • 2. Cinema inherited the conventions of literary narratives.
         • 3. The existing differences push the novel to look for a way of telling a new way of building a narrative universe.
           • Different techniques: a) Treatment of time b) Treatment of space c) The shifting point of view d) The configuration of the character e) The order in which narrated facts are presented.

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