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  2. Structuralist film theory - Wikipedia

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    Structuralist film theory emphasizes how films convey meaning through the use of codes and conventions not dissimilar to the way languages are used to construct meaning in communication.

  3. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or "as". A simile is a comparison used to attract the reader's attention and describe something in descriptive terms. Example: "From up here on the fourteenth floor, my brother Charley looks like an insect scurrying among other insects." (from "Sweet ...

  4. Film styles - Wikipedia

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    Two films may be from the same genre, but may well look different as a result of the film style. For example, Independence Day and Cloverfield are both sci-fi, action films about the possible end of the world. However, they are shot differently, with Cloverfield using a handheld camera for the entire movie. Films in the same genre do not ...

  5. Formalist film theory - Wikipedia

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    For example, a formalist views standard Hollywood "continuity editing" for how it creates a comforting effect and non-continuity or how jump cut editing becomes disconcerting. [ citation needed ] A formalist considers the synthesis of several elements, such as editing, shot composition, and music.

  6. Film analysis - Wikipedia

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    There are several examples in film history where image was even more than just a key element of film (i.e. pre WWII avant-garde films, Italian neorealism, film noir, etc.). However, today, in most narrative films ( Fictional film ) we try to hide pictorial elements from audience and mask them behind the story . [ 2 ]

  7. Ellipsis (narrative device) - Wikipedia

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    Another example is found in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. [2] Ellipsis is a common procedure in film narrative, where movement and action unnecessary to the telling of a story will often be removed by editing. For example, there would be no need to show a character standing up from a chair and walking the length of a room to open a door.

  8. Fictional music - Wikipedia

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    The following are some examples of both of these types of musical instruments. In the Dune universe, the baliset is a very long nine-stringed zither. In the 1984 film Dune, the baliset is represented by a cosmetically altered Chapman stick. [16] In the Futurama television series, a fictional musical instrument called "the Holophonor" was ...

  9. BRAAAM - Wikipedia

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    BRAAAM is a loud, low sound typically produced using real or synthesized brass instruments.One of the best-known examples also involved a prepared piano.Seth Abramovitch of The Hollywood Reporter described the sound as "like a foghorn on steroids" which is "meant to impart a sense of apocalyptic momentousness". [3]