Rhythm in Cinema: An Analysis of the Movie Raging Bull
Rhythm in Cinema: An Analysis of the Movie Raging Bull

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of rhythm in cinema plays an important role in shaping film language, aesthetics, and the viewer’s cognitive and emotional engagement with a film. Rhythm emerges through the collaborative efforts of various film team members, including the director, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, and music and sound designer. It serves as a guiding force that navigates the audience through the narrative, providing a structured framework for interpreting the film’s emotional depth and underlying meaning. This study aims to reveal how the elements that constitute rhythm in cinema are constructed in Raging Bull (1980). In the literature review section, the fundamental components that determine the cinematic rhythm and how they are constructed in cinema from past to present are explained with example scenes from world cinema. Subsequently, the film is segmented into sequences, and an analysis of its constituent elements—encompassing cinematography, editing, and sound and music design—ensues. As a result, the examination reveals that the elements that make up the rhythm form the rhythm in a structure that serves the whole in a fragmented manner and that the rhythm has an important role in the creation and strengthening of the film not only in the film’s formal attributes but also in its narrative development, aesthetic qualities, and cinematic language.

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