Storytelling in Motion
Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 June 2024
- ISBN 9780197602669
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 235x156 mm
- Weight 1240 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 57 572
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Short description:
How do filmmakers guide viewers through the frame using the movement of bodies on screen? What do they seek to communicate with their cinematic choreography, and how were those choices shaped by industrial conditions? This book is about the powerful relationship between human movement and cinema. It demonstrates how filmmakers have used moving bodies and dance as key storytelling elements and how media industries' changing investment in this aspect of film style impacts filmmakers' choices in portraying movement on screen.
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How do filmmakers guide viewer attention through the frame using the movement of bodies on screen? What do they seek to communicate with their cinematic choreography, and how were those choices shaped by the industrial conditions available to them?
Storytelling in motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical demonstrates how figure movement can serve as a versatile strategy of meaning-making, particularly when filmmakers attend to the relationship between choreographed movement and film style. Using Franco-American film musicals as case studies, this book analyses the narrative and stylistic impact of figure movement in cinema and the subtle power of cinematic choreography, those moments when filmmakers deliberately combine the strengths of film style and organized figure movement to convey narrative meaning through motion. Cinematic choreography emphasizes musical conventions in Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952), prejudiced conflict in West Side Story (Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, 1961), aesthetic play in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967), generic discomfort in Trois places pour le 26 (Jacques Demy, 1988), the politics of illness in Jeanne et le garçon formidable (Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, 1998), and decision-making in La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016).
Integrating vocabularies and analytical systems from Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies, film studies, and related fields to parse cinematic figure movement on multiple formal levels, this book uses performative research methods from videographic criticism to show the poetic and oblique connections between films through videographic as well as written chapters. Storytelling in Motion centers the crucial material conditions needed to make figure movement a significant component of narrative filmmaking: time, money, rehearsal space, industrial support, and performers and crew with the necessary embodied and institutional knowledge. The films discussed tell a clear story of how cinematic choreography was used by French and American filmmakers to innovate storytelling through figure movement, inspired by their predecessors' aesthetics while working within differing industrial conditions.
Table of Contents:
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I
Musical foundations
Chapter 1
Formal conventions and musical practices: Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Chapter 2
Seeing movement in cinema: An introduction to Laban Movement Analysis
Chapter 3
Agency, control, and space: West Side Story (1961)
Part II
Musical eclecticism
Chapter 4
Minimalism and excess: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Chapter 5
Musical unease: Trois places pour le 26 (1988)
Chapter 6
Endless conversations: Reflexive musical clusters
Part III
Musical realism
Chapter 7
Diegetic flutters: Views from the bridge
Chapter 8
Imperfect bodies: Jeanne et le garçon formidable (1998)
Chapter 9
Rhythmic realism: La La Land (2016)
Appendix 1: Laban Movement Analysis ?cheat sheet?
Appendix 2: Analytical data
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