Too focused on fitting film styles into definitions while ignoring how audiences engage with films
Passage Style
Critique or debate
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Question Type
Except (RC)
Stated
This is a Stated EXCEPT question. Four of the answer choices will be parts of Bordwell’s definition of the classical style of filmmaking; the correct answer will not be a characteristic of classical style films according to Bordwell. Remember that Bordwell’s definition of the classical style is found in P1.
This is stated at the end of P1; according to Bordwell’s definition, classical style films avoid techniques that draw attention to the film medium.
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b
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This is stated in P1; Bordwell’s definition of classical style films includes the need to follow well-defined characters.
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c
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This is stated in P1; one of the characteristics of classical style film is a world that is self-sufficient and recognizably similar to our own.
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d
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This is not included in the passage as a component of Bordwell’s definition of the classical style. In fact, this describes Berkeley’s musical, which the author claims doesn’t fall under Bordwell’s definition of classical style films.
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e
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This is stated in P1; one of the characteristics of classical style film is a chronological plot.
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Critique or debate passages contain multiple points of view on a particular subject. Sometimes the author takes sides and participates in the critique or debate, other times the author merely reports the debate.
