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What are the three modes of narration Bordwell discusses in his book Narration in the Fiction Film? Why is he reluctant to call the non-classical mode of narration modernist? What does that have to do with his project of a ‘historical poetics’ of cinema and with the distinction between ‘narrative techniques’ and ‘historical modes of narration’?

1. How has the meaning of the term “modern” changed over the years? 2. What are the three main ways in which cinema became ‘modern’ in the 1920s? 3. What are some of the characteristics of ‘French impressionism”? Why does Kovacs argue that French Impressionism was “the most synthetic phenomenon of early modern cinema” (19)? […]