A beach, a break or On description in Abbas Kiarostami's films

Authors

  • Lennon Macedo Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3686-0550
  • Alexandre Rocha da Silva Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.1823

Keywords:

film description, narration, film semiotics

Abstract

The article addresses the relationship between cinematic description and narration in four films by Abbas Kiarostami. With the contribution of Christian Metz’s semiology and Gilles Deleuze’s post-structuralist critique, we identify some dynamics of meaning that flow between descriptive and narrative procedures. On semiology’s side, there’s a profound relationship between film studies and narrative studies, leaving description with a minor role. On the side of deleuzean taxonomy, narration and description cohabit according to the behavior of each image regime. In our analytic sketches, Kiarostami’s films produce variations inside both theoretical bundles.

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Author Biographies

Lennon Macedo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul e Bacharel em Jornalismo pela mesma instituição. Bolsista Capes.

Alexandre Rocha da Silva, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.

Doutor pelo programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Comunicação da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, com doutorado-sanduíche em Sémiotique – Centre d Étude de La Vie Politique Française. Pós doutorado na Universite de Paris III (Sorbonne- Nouvelle). Bolsista Produtividade em Pesquisa do CNPq. Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e do Departamento de Comunicação da Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

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NEMA-YE Nazdik (Close-up). Direção: Abbas Kiarostami. Produção: Kanun. Irã, 1990, 98min.
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Published

08-04-2020

How to Cite

Macedo, L., & Silva, A. R. da. (2020). A beach, a break or On description in Abbas Kiarostami’s films. E-Compós, 23. https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.1823

Issue

Vol. 23 (2020)

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Artigos Originais

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