Auteur Formalism Analysis

Prepared by Adjunct Professor Paul Loosley

FTV 111/511 History of Screen Language

Auteur Formalism & Realism.

Formalism and Realism
Hero. Zhang Yi Mou. 2002

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FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION, MEDIA AND BROADCASTING

Adjunct Professor Paul Loosley

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Prepared by Adjunct Professor Paul Loosley

FTV 111/511 History of Screen Language

Auteur Formalism & Realism.

Formalism is simply the seeing film as an expressive medium where filmmaking is purely to communicate whatever message the film has to offer. There is no intent to be believable in the broad sense. This breach with actuality could be also simply be to entertain. Poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the term “willing suspension of disbelief” to justify the use of fantastic
FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION, MEDIA AND BROADCASTING

Zhang Yi Mou

(2002)

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Prepared by Adjunct Professor Paul Loosley

FTV 111/511 History of Screen Language

Auteur Formalism & Realism.
Director

FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION, MEDIA AND BROADCASTING

Zhang Yi Mou

1987 Red Sorghum 1990 Ju Dou 1991 Raise the Red Lantern 1992 The Story of Qiu Ju 1994 To Live 1995 Shanghai Triad 1997 Keep Cool 1999 Not One Less 1999 The Road Home 2000 Happy Times 2002 Hero 2004 House of Flying Daggers 2005 Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles 2006 Curse of the Golden Flower 2009 A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop 2010 The Love of the Hawthorn Tree 2012 The 13 Women of Nanjing

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Prepared by Adjunct Professor Paul Loosley

FTV 111/511 History of Screen Language

Auteur Formalism & Realism.
Real Realistic

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Unreal

Not One Less. 1999

Raise the Red Lantern. 1991

House of Flying Daggers. 2004

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FTV 111/511 History of Screen Language