Short Paper Response Assignment

Decent Essays
Thomas Drake Jr.

LIT 106

Professor Edward Kihn

Short Paper Response Assignment 1

Question 1

Characterize some of the major changes from filmed “actualities” to early narrative cinema (5%):

The characteristics of the major changes from filmed “actualities” to early narrative cinema began in the early 1900’s. An actuality film is a non-fiction film portraying footage through a real event. A narrative cinema was a fictional film presenting the audience a story. The audience’s attention in the outside world including political, social, and economic causes played a key role in change. In the beginning, filmmakers constructed their work based on the attention of the audience eyes in the outside world. As times progressed, the filmmakers

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