Filmmakers construct and manipulate time and space, as well as seeking to guide spectators' attention to narratively or thematically important material. Since the beginning of the cinema they have done this in radically, as well as subtly, different ways. This topic explores ways in which stylistic elements such as cinematography, decoupage, staging, editing and sound design have been employed by filmmakers at various historical moments. We will look at silent cinema and Soviet montage conceptions of film practice, as well as the commercial Hollywood cinema of both the studio period and the contemporary scene. We will end with an analysis of art cinema filmmakers who exemplify directions in modernist stylistics.
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