The Technique of Film and Video Editing, 5th Edition

 

 

CHAPTER 15

The Appropriation of Style II: Limitation and Innovation

 

 

This chapter continues the exploration begun in the previous chapter, which looked at the tension between style and content and how that tension generates first a distinct voice for the narrative. This voice is first articulated in the compositional choices and consequently in the organization and orchestration of those images. Style may refer to genre or it may reconsider the organization of shots into a different narrative frame, such as the nonlinear frame Quentin Tarantino uses in Pulp Fiction (1994). In this chapter, we examine four stylistic interventions that on one level appear to be a return to former forms—in a sense, a creative reaction to the radical experience ...