Filmhaspropertiesthatsetitapartfrompainting,sculpture,novels,andplays.Itisalso,initsmostpopularandpowerfulform,astorytellingmediumthatsharesmanyelementswiththeshortstoryandthenovel.Andsincefilmpresentsitsstoriesindramaticform,ithasevenmoreincommonwiththestageplay:Bothplaysandmoviesactoutordramatize,showratherthantell,whathappens. Unlikethenovel,shortstory,orplay,however,filmisnothandytostudy;itcannotbeeffectivelyfrozenontheprintedpage.Thenovelandshortstoryarerelativelyeasytostudybecausetheyarewrittentoberead.Thestageplayisslightlymoredifficulttostudybecauseitiswrittentobeperformed.Butplaysareprinted,andbecausetheyrelyheavilyonthespokenword,imaginativereaderscanconjureupatleastapaleimitationoftheexperiencetheymighthavebeenwatchingaperformanceonstage.Thiscannotbesaidofthescreenplay,forafilmdependsgreatlyonvisualandothernonvisualelementsthatarenoteasilyexpressedinwriting.Thescreenplayrequiressomuch“fillingin”byourimaginationthatwecannotreallyapproximatetheexperienceofafilmbyreadingascreenplay,andreadingascreenplayisworthwhileonlyifwehavealreadyseenthefilm.Thus,mostscreenplaysarepublishednottoreadbutrathertoberemembered. Still,filmshouldnotbeignoredbecausestudyingitrequiresextraeffort.Andthefactthatwedonotgenerally“read”filmsdoesnotmeanweshouldignoretheprinciplesofliteraryordramaticanalysiswhenweseeafilm.Literatureandfilmsdosharemanyelementsandcommunicatemanythingsinsimilarways.Perceptivefilmanalysisrestsontheprinciplesusedinliteraryanalysis,andifweapplywhatwehavelearnedinthestudyofliteraturetoouranalysisoffilms,wewillbefaraheadofthosewhodonot.Therefore,beforeweturntotheuniqueelementsoffilm,weneedtolookintotheelementsthatfilmshareswithanygoodstory. Dividingfilmintoitsvariouselementsforanalysisisasomewhatartificialprocess,fortheelementsofanyartformneverexistinisolation.Itisimpossible,forexample,toisolateplotfromcharacter:Eventsinfluencepeople,andpeopleinfluenceevents;thetwoarealwayscloselyinterwoveninanyfictional,dramatic,orcinematicwork.Nevertheless,theanalyticalmethodusessuchafragmentingtechniqueforeaseandconvenience.Butitdoessowiththeassumptionthatwecanstudytheseelementsinisolationwithoutlosingsightoftheirinterdependenceortheirrelationshiptothewhole. Whatismainlydiscussedinthetext?
A.The uniqueness of film. B.The importance of film analysis. C.How to identify the techniques a film uses. D.The relationship between film analysis and literary analysis.正确答案D
