Narrative film, the Glossary
Narrative film, fictional film or fiction film is a motion picture that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative.[1]
Table of Contents
36 relations: A Trip to the Moon, Alice Guy-Blaché, Auguste and Louis Lumière, Chantal Akerman, Cinematography, Classical Hollywood cinema, Comedy, Continuity editing, David Bordwell, Docufiction, Documentary film, Drama (film and television), Dziga Vertov, Experimental film, Feature film, Fiction, Film, Film genre, Georges Méliès, Kristin Thompson, L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, L'Arroseur Arrosé, La Fée aux Choux, Man with a Movie Camera, Michael Snow, Narrative, Non-fiction, Non-narrative film, Play (theatre), Realism (arts), Robert Luketic, Screenplay, Theatre, Wavelength (1967 film), Western (genre), 21 (2008 film).
A Trip to the Moon
A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film written, directed and produced by Georges Méliès.
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Alice Guy-Blaché
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (Guy;; 1 July 1873 – 24 March 1968) was a French pioneer film director.
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Auguste and Louis Lumière
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948), were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and 1905, which places them among the earliest filmmakers.
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Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman (6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York.
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Cinematography
Cinematography is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Narrative film and Cinematography are filmmaking.
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Classical Hollywood cinema
Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking that first developed in the 1910s to 1920s during the later years of the silent film era.
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Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: In Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters.
Continuity editing
Continuity editing is the process, in film and video creation, of combining more-or-less related shots, or different components cut from a single shot, into a sequence to direct the viewer's attention to a pre-existing consistency of story across both time and physical location.
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David Bordwell
David Jay Bordwell (July 23, 1947 – February 29, 2024) was an American film theorist and film historian.
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Docufiction
Docufiction (or docu-fiction) is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film. Narrative film and Docufiction are film genres.
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Documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Narrative film and documentary film are film genres.
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Drama (film and television)
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Narrative film and drama (film and television) are film genres.
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Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов, born David Abelevich Kaufman, Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман., and also known as Denis Kaufman; – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.
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Experimental film
Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Narrative film and Experimental film are film and video terminology and film genres.
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Feature film
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. Narrative film and feature film are film and video terminology.
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Fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.
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Film
A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
Film genre
A film genre is a stylistic or thematic category for motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film. Narrative film and film genre are cinematography and film genres.
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Georges Méliès
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French magician, actor, and film director.
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Kristin Thompson
Kristin Thompson (born 1950) is an American film theorist and author whose research interests include the close formal analysis of films, the history of film styles, and "quality television," a genre akin to art film.
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L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat
L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (translated from French into English as The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat and The Arrival of the Mail Train, and in the United Kingdom as Train Pulling into a Station) is an 1895 French short silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
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L'Arroseur Arrosé
L'Arroseur Arrosé (also known as The Waterer Watered and The Sprinkler Sprinkled) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent comedy film directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring François Clerc and Benoît Duval.
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La Fée aux Choux
The 1896 version of La Fée aux Choux (The Fairy of the Cabbages) is a lost film directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (then known as Alice Guy) that, according to her, featured a honeymoon couple, a farmer, pictures of babies glued to cardboard, and one live baby.
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Man with a Movie Camera
Man with a Movie Camera (translit) is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov, filmed by his brother Mikhail Kaufman, and edited by Vertov's wife Yelizaveta Svilova.
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Michael Snow
Michael James Aleck Snow (December 10, 1928 – January 5, 2023) was a Canadian artist who worked in a range of media including film, installation, sculpture, photography, and music.
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Narrative
A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether non-fictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, through still or moving images, or through any combination of these.
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination.
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Non-narrative film
Non-narrative film is an aesthetic of cinematic film that does not narrate, or relate "an event, whether real or imaginary". Narrative film and non-narrative film are film and video terminology and film genres.
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Play (theatre)
A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.
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Realism (arts)
Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.
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Robert Luketic
Robert Luketic (born 1 November 1973) is an Australian film director.
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Screenplay
A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show, or video game (as opposed to a stage play) by screenwriters. Narrative film and screenplay are film and video terminology and filmmaking.
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
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Wavelength (1967 film)
Wavelength is a 1967 experimental film by Canadian artist Michael Snow.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. Narrative film and Western (genre) are film genres.
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21 (2008 film)
21 is a 2008 American heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_film
Also known as Fiction film, Fiction films, Fictional film, Fictional films, Fictional movie, Film narrative.