Dreams of Decadence 3 – Grillet’s Generators

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These quotes explain the difference between Continental and European film making, in terms of how visuals and plot interact within genre conventions.
” Plots come to consist of what Alain Robbe-Grillet, in a literary context, called ‘generators’. That’s to say they are launching off points for both audience and film-maker into a shared world [...]