다이렉트 시네마와 멜로드라마 비교연구: <스텔라 달라스>와 <축 어머니 날>, <세일즈맨>을 중심으로

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This article will focus on how direct cinemas tell their stories about reality in terms of narrative structure. It will articulate how direct cinema depends on narrative structure of classic melodrama to make meanings with vivid and uncertain images, whereas the documentaries before direct cinema often depends on language to do so. It will analyze narrative structure of classic melodrama <Stella Dallas> and of classic direct cinema <Salesman>, and show the difference and similarity by comparison. This comparison will lead to a discovery that various characteristics of direct cinema such as focusing on emotion rather than action, observation to a certain extent and telling about human beings in certain institutions by comparison and contrast, can find its similarities in classic melodrama like <Stella Dallas>. Furthermore, it will light on how much similar <Salesman>’s describing a protagonist in institution be to <Stella Dallas> by analysis of false point of view shots in <salesman>.

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