Aims

This course is based on a study of cinematographic language codes, and enables students to
Verify their operationality in an analysis of concrete filmic configurations.

Main themes

The course objective is an approach to cinematographic language that forms part of a dual
perspective of narration and enunciation.

Content and teaching methods

As the paramount producer of narrativity, the cinematographic act is analysed through the
Basic constituents of time and space. It involves highlighting different kinds of filmic
treatment of diegetic temporality and spatiality, the linkage between which constructs a codification of units of narrative and narrative rhythms.
Filmic discourse is then questioned in relation to the notion of viewpoint through an
inference of the knowledge of narrators, characters and viewers.
In respect of enunciation, this study of cinematographic language embarks on an analysis
of:
" the relation between enounced and enunciator through the 'deictic' masks and marks of
cinematographic writing, and
" the relationship between enounced and enunciatory through the place of the viewer and
the play of dual identification.
This approach compares the theoretical issue and filmic applications.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Pre requirement: Course SESP1270 (Semiology)
Practical analytical work and a written examination.
Reference texts on cinema semio-narratology; analysis of extracts from films.

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