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Whether for genre or narrative studies or game studies the aesthetic is a core decision Director Study/Genre study  **STYLE** ARANOVSKY on THE BLACK SWAN
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A Woody Allen movie Midnight in Paris(2011) Think about the contexts of appeal. What is appealing about going to the cinema still?

Recommended: Woody Allen's MATCHPOINT, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS and most recently, BLUE JASMINE https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=the+music+for+broadchurch&rlz=1C5CHFA_enNZ556NZ559&oq=the+music+for+broadchurch&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.8486j0j1&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8#q=woodly+Allens+films

**read about the Coen Brothers and Tarintino** Q. Style. The Coen Brothers. Why did George Clooney want so much to be in a Coen film?

Suggestion: look at two Coen Brothers films.Barton Fink

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When considering a directorial style, we look only to the films of the director in question, including, where relevant, films of different stylistic periods.

we look to features that differentiate a given filmmaker from other filmmakers - we look for what makes the director appear distinctive. And these different projects, of course, can pull in different directions. In discussing the work of Fritz Lang as a German Expressionist director, we may point to certain features of his work he shares with other directors of the pertinent movement and period, but when speaking of Lang's directorial style, we may omit some of these features, since they do not differentiate Lang from other directors. Though other, more fine-grained, distinctions can be made with respect to the concept of style, a provisional cartography of common usages includes what we can call general style, personal style, and the style or form of the individual film.(2) Both general style and personal style refer to groups of film; their domain is a body of work. The style or form of the individual film refers to a specific film, such as //**Kundun**//. General style refers to a group of films by more than one filmmaker as in the notion of the Classical Hollywood Cinema. Personal style refers to the films of a single filmmaker, such as Edward Yang.

The category of general style can be further divided into at least four subclasses: universal style, period style, genre style, and school or movement style.(3) If we call the balanced shot outside the planetarium in Nichols Ray's //**Rebel Without A Cause**// (Bordwell 244) "classical," we are using the concept of style in a universal sense, since we will call any such symmetrically poised composition, from any period in film history (and, perhaps in any visual artform), "classical" in this sense. The domain of the concept of style when used universally is at least all film. When we refer, however, to the tableau style or to the "clothes-line" style of composition of primitive film, though we are talking about a general style (and not the style of a specific filmmaker), our reference is restricted, with the exception of explicit references to atavisms, to films of the first two decades of this century. The universal concept of style applies to all films, whereas the concept of a period style applies only to some subset thereof governed by temporal/historical criteria and often by regional (sometimes national) considerations.

Generally, a filmmaker possesses a period style tacitly. She does not decide to work in that style explicitly. It is a prevailing style of norms and practices. Vincent Sherman did not decide to adopt a thirties studio style when he came to make his first film The Return of Dr. X. He found it, so to speak, ready-to-hand. School or movement style, in contrast, is more a matter of express policy. A structural filmmaker decides to work in that style, perhaps by expanding its strategies in new directions. Though both period style and school/movement style differ from universal style inasmuch as they obtain in a subset of films of specific provenance rather than potentially in any film whatsoever, school/movement style differs from period style insofar as it is more a matter of self-consciously adopting a project than of settling into things as they are. School/movement style, however, generally does have something in common with period style, since schools and movements most frequently flourish in discrete historical moments.

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