Read Beyond Hollywood: Reading Arthouse Cinema. This is in MM45 on page 24 - go to our Media Magazine archive to find the article. 1) Summarise the article in 50 words. Arthouse films artistic rather than commercial; they are films that are purposely difficult to understand or ‘read’. Those who think of cinema as being simply entertainment, which is easier to read, are rarely likely to watch an arthouse film. Arthouse is characterised by ‘maximum ambiguity’, where a bizarre turn of events can only be ‘explained’ by characters’ subjectivity, rather than the world of the film. So the producers of art cinema are not in the business of making it easy for audiences to read the film. The ‘return to the equilibrium’ described by Todorov is often absent in arthouse cinema. it gains its meanings through reference to other texts: Intertextual understanding in our so...
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