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Cinematic Techniques of Representation of Emotions in Genre Cinema: Analysis of Silent Scenes

Student: Asatrian Angelina

Supervisor: Volha Verbilovich

Faculty: Faculty of Creative Industries

Educational Programme: Journalism (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

The academic paper is connected to the problem issue of cinematic techniques of representation of emotions in silent scenes of genre movies. The key objective is to analyze how emotions are visualized in silent scenes. Semiotic analysis is the major method employed in the research. The first part of the study is devoted to the genre theories, definition of genre cinema and silent scenes in the structure of genre films. The second part of the project is related to the semiotic theories, the cognitive studies of emotions in film and to the development of new methodology of emotion representation analysis. The new classification of cinematic techniques of emotions representation is developed. It divides the cinematic techniques into two groups: techniques related to film production technologies and the character related ones. The last part is connected to the analysis of the chosen silent scenes of six movies by genre: Green Book (dir. P. Farrelly, 2018) – comedy film, La La Land (dir. D. Chazelle, 2016) – romantic film, Knives Out (dir. R. Johnson, 2019) – mystery film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (dir. M. McDonagh, 2017) – drama, Midsommar (dir. A. Aster, 2019) and Tenet (dir. C. Nolan, 2020). Finally, the classification of emotions by the techniques they are represented by is provided. The paper will be useful for cinema theorists, scientists in the sphere of cognitive emotions, semiotic analysis researchers and general readers who are interested in film and emotions.

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