COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
Storytelling as Observer: Analysis "Berlin School" in Balancing Naturalism and Defamiliarization
Creator:
Zhang, Lingxuan
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Film and Television
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Film and Television
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
"This thesis focuses on the creative significance of the realistic aesthetic characteristics of the observer's perspective in the new film-making environment. Taking the Berlin School film movement as an example, the study examines its creative background and influence, and explores how the combination of naturalism and defamiliarization creates a thought-provoking realist style, emphasizing this creative tendency in comparison with other film movements of the same period. By addressing the visual narrative devices in the films of Christian Petzold and Angela Schanelec, representatives of the Berlin School, the author investigates how they reproduce images of time, space, emotion, and details of life to inform the creation of the author's dissertation film, A Dream of Fire, which combines the naturalistic and theatrical styles of storytelling together." --Abstract
Keywords: Berlin School, observer-oriented realism, naturalism, defamiliarization, cinematic movements, comparative analysis, visual storytelling, global cinema
Keywords: Berlin School, observer-oriented realism, naturalism, defamiliarization, cinematic movements, comparative analysis, visual storytelling, global cinema
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2024-03
Format:
3 online resources: 1 PDF (Thesis, 33 pages) + 1 mp4 film (1st Studio component, approximately 8 min., sound, color) + 1 PDF (2nd Studio component, 12 pages, color illustrations)