Fictional film or narrative film uses chronological reality to tell a fictional story. Film scholars consider the fictional film to be one of the major styles of filmmaking, along with the experimental film and the documentary film. The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... Filmmaking is the process of making a film. ... An experimental film is a film organized neither as narrative fiction nor as non-fiction. ... Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. ...

Unlike literary fiction, the fictional film has a real referent, called the pro-filmic, which encompasses everything existing and done in front of the camera. Only in fictional filmmaking, the pro-filmic represents a different, diegetic meaning: sets serve as locations and actors as characters. In diegesis the author tells the story. ...

Since the emergence of classical Hollywood style in the early 20th century, narrative, usually in the form of the feature film, has held dominance in commercial cinema and has become popularly synonymous with "the movies." Classical, invisible filmmaking (what is often called "realist" fiction) is central to this popular definition. Certain films, however, have more experimental fictions (the work of Alain Resnais or neo-noir like Memento, for example), and Hollywood in itself has loosened some of its rules since the 1970s, adopting what some have called a "post-classical" style. Classical Hollywood cinema designates both a visual and sound style for making motion pictures and a mode of production that arose in the Los Angeles film industry of the 1910s and 1920s. ... A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ... Realism in art and literature is the depiction of fact or reality, rather than imaginary subjects. ... Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922 in Vannes, France) is a famous French film director, perhaps best known for his masterpieces Hiroshima mon amour (1959), written by Marguerite Duras, and Last Year at Marienbad (Lannée dernière à Marienbad) (1961), written by the French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet. ... Neo-noir is a term given to the modern trend of incorporating aspects of film noir into films of other genres. ... New Hollywood refers to the brief time between roughly 1967 (Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate) and 1980 (Heavens Gate) when a new generation of young, cinema-crazed filmmakers came to prominence in America, drastically changing not only the way Hollywood films were produced and marketed, but also the kinds...

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