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ISBN-10 :  3319621968 

ISBN-13 : 9783319621968

Author: Katerina Virvidaki 

This book examines the concept of coherence in film studies. It asks if there are ways to appreciate the achievement of coherence in narrative films that are characterised by an eccentric or difficult style, as well as by an apparently confusing intelligibility. In order to answer this critical question, the author argues that we need to reconsider the predominant understanding of the concept of coherence in film studies. Virvidaki identifies how a general function of coherence is manifested through the aesthetic of transparency and unobtrusiveness of classical Hollywood film. The author then proceeds to a close analysis of stylistically perplexing narrative films, in order to demonstrate how we can broaden, expand and readjust the classical criteria of coherence. Testing Coherence in Narrative Film will appeal to film and philosophy scholars interested in aesthetics and narrative form.

Testing Coherence in Narrative Film 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Is ‘Coherence’ Just a Style?
Method and Overview
References
Part I The Achievement of Synthesis and the Intelligibility of the Film’s Fictional World
Chapter 2 Interrogating Problems of Coherence in Narrative Film
V.F. Perkins: From Credibility to Synthesis
Letter from an Unknown Woman: Integrating Stylistic Difference
Letter from an Unknown Woman: Stretchingthe Tensions Even Further
Establishing and Interrogating the Realityof the Film’s Fictional World
V.F. Perkins and G. Wilson: Developing Patterns of Intelligibility
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3 The Elusive: Max Ophuls’ Madame De …
Formal Control and ‘Openness’ of Meaning
The Love Affair: Patterning Uncertainty
Louise: The Tension Between the ‘Overt’ and the Evocative
Conclusion
References
Part II Apparent Incoherence and Dramatic Significance
Chapter 4 The Unbelievable: Carl-Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet
Making Sense of a Miracle
The Physical and the Spiritual (1): Tension
The Physical and the Spiritual (2): Fusion and Interplay
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5 The Fragmented: Jean-Luc Godard’s Passion
Stylistic Difficulty and Intelligibility
Isabelle: Fragmenting Knowledge, Expanding Signification
The Tableaux Vivants: Reordering Content,Recomposing Meaning
The Naked Female Body: Contextual Variationand the Limits of Visual Representation
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 The Digressive: Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction
Manipulating the Relation Between Structure and Significance
Working Against Narrative Closure: Manipulating the Relation Between Significance and Temporal Order
Vincent and Jules in T-Shirts: Exploring the Function of Surprise and Incongruity in the Presentatio
Inside Marsellus’ Restaurant: Narrative Disunity and Stylistic Connectivity
Dramatic Diversion: Retarding and Accelerating Narrative Momentum
Dramatic Undecidability: Obscuring Central Dramatic Moments
Dissociating Stylistic from Narrative Intelligibility
Mia and Vincent’s Dance: Conflating the Central and the Incidental
Shifting the Hierarchy of Dramatic Stakes: The Bonnie Situation
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7 The Inexpressible: Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line
The Film’s Metaphysical Voice-Over: Disembeddedness and Significance
Voice-Over and Subjectivity: Unsettling Conventional Point of View Attribution
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8 Conclusion
References

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