Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
In this video in our series on narration, I examine David Bordwell's account of "art cinema narration" that he develops in his essay "Art Cinema as Mode of Film Practice." In the essay, Bordwell makes the bold claim that what we generally call "art films" are not only identifiable through institutional markers--that is, how they are produced, exhibited, and marketed--but also through stylistic and narrational ones, too. This video looks primarily at the way that art cinema narration distinguishes itself from the tenets of classical Hollywood narration, using the example of Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love (2000).
In this video in our series on narration, I examine David Bordwell's account of "art cinema narration" that he develops in his essay "Art Cinema as Mode of Film Practice." In the essay, Bordwell makes the bold claim that what we generally call "art films" are not only identifiable through institutional markers--that is, how they are produced, exhibited, and marketed--but also through stylistic and narrational ones, too. This video looks primarily at the way that art cinema narration distinguishes itself from the tenets of classical Hollywood narration, using the example of Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love (2000).
