Como se contava uma história nos primeiros anos do cinema: narrativa e linguagem

Abstract

The work aism to study the narrative forms of the first years os activity of American cinema between 1895 and 1915.The theoretical work is a contextualization of the history of motion pirctures and films activity in the United States in the early years of activity. Is made than a discussion of the narrative forms that are found in the early cinematographic activity, they are the cinema of attaction, proposed by Tom Gunning, “mostração”, a concept developed by André Gaudreault, and classical model os David Bordwell. It is also tlaking about two elements of film language, the planning and de editing. The articulation of these elements with the narrative forms is directly connected with the development of the narrative. The last chapter is the analysis of a series of films aiming to draw a line of evolutionary develpment of narrative and film languague.