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Język filmu i jego mowa
Language of Film and Its Significance

Author(s): Janusz Plisiecki
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: film; art; language; culture

Summary/Abstract: The film produces an effect through the pictures, the light and color system, through the dialogs and music. But all of those different vehicles and ways of pronouncement are put into practice at the same moment, almost as if they did belong together. But it is a motion what makes the most important attribute of the film. To direct the film means to read properly the action that takes place in the time and space using an adequate expedients of sound and narration. The film, as an result of modern culture, performs the real world through the elements of technique. That is why, the author describes those elements of the film narration that have the connections with technology (e.g. pictures, sequences, location, the question of the close-up, editing of the film) also the stuff – elements (e.g. light, color, music, scenography and actor as well) and finally describes those vehicles of film stylistics that have the connections with means of expression normally used in literature.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 163-174
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish