Editing Formalist film theory (section)

== Formalism in ideological approaches ==

=== Classical Hollywood cinema ===
[[Classical Hollywood cinema]] uses a style referred to as the [[institutional mode of representation]]: continuity editing, massive coverage, [[three-point lighting]], "mood" music, and dissolves. The socio-economic ideological explanation for this is style involves Hollywood's desire to monetarily profit and appeal to ticket-buyers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bordwell |first=David |orig-date=Original Edition published 1997, second printing 1999 |title=On The History Of Film Style |url=https://www.davidbordwell.net/books/on-history-film-style-davidbordwell-180531.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905161834/https://www.davidbordwell.net/books/on-history-film-style-davidbordwell-180531.pdf |archive-date=September 5, 2024 |access-date=February 27, 2025 |website=David Bordwell's website on cinema |pages=144-148 |format=PDF |isbn=978-0-9832440-3-5}}</ref>

=== Film noir ===
[[Film noir]] is marked by lower production values, darker images, under lighting, location shooting, and general [[nihilism]]. This is largely due to the pessimistic outlook filmmakers and filmgoers expressed during the war and post-war years. In the following decades, many [[German expressionist cinema|German Expressionists]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Phillips |first=Gene D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYAzadGt2UcC&pg=PA17 |title=Out of the Shadows: Expanding the Canon of Classic Film Noir |date=2012 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-8189-1 |language=en}}</ref> immigrated to America. Their stylized lighting effects and themes of disillusionment due to the war left an impact on Film noir and classical Hollywood films.<ref> {{cite web |url=https://daily.jstor.org/how-fritz-langs-flight-from-nazi-germany-shaped-hollywood/ |title= How Fritz Lang’s Flight from Nazi Germany Shaped Hollywood |last= Hunt|first= Kristin |date= May 21, 2020 |website= Daily.JStor |publisher= JSTOR |access-date= June 21, 2024}} </ref>