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Bad Editing Turned Good:  Deconstructing Harry and A Bout De Souffle/Breathless

 
 
 
 
 

Home   Deconstructing Harry Editing Map Breathless Editing Map Comparison Links	Welcome!   As the title implies, this page is more or less a comparison of Deconstructing Harry by Woody Allen, and Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard.  Both directors used editing techniques very different from the classical Hollywood style, including jump cuts, continuity violation and unbalanced framing of objects.  Their techniques create a visual style that is very self aware, causing the viewer to see the film as just, well, film.  The similarities are quite amazing, and hopefully I can prove that with the following pages...  just use the nifty links to your left or look below. Deconstructing Harry                     -everything you need to know about the movie (without ruining it, hopefully)       Editing                     -a little bit specifically on the editing techniques of Harry      Map                     -a shot by shot rundown of a scene from Harry Breathless                     -everything you need to know about crazy New Wave French Cinema      Editing                     -a little bit specifically on editing in Breathless      Map                    -a shot by shot rundown of a scene from Breathless Comparison                    -a look of how the two work similarly and differently Links                    -if you just can't get enough, here's some other resources available on the Net       Created and maintained by Mike Buckman for media studies 110, introduction to media studies at Carleton College          This page was created using Netscape Composer and looks best in Netscape Communicator at a screen resolution of at least 800x600 with at least 16 bit color.
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