plotlessness
- noun
- /ˈplɑt.ləs.nəs/
- Literature
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falta de trama
- The film's plotlessness left audiences feeling confused, as there was no clear storyline to follow.
Examples
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Plotlessness, however, is a standalone narrative mode, which can have its masterpieces.
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Indeed, many Stalin-era films take this approach, and this partial plotlessness explains why so many of them seem undramatic and slow.
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In reality, however, plotlessness did not end in the 1980s.
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As I show below, several films released in 1938 quickly became models despite their manifest plotlessness.
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ABSTRACT: This article addresses a persistent feature of Soviet cinema: plotlessness, or unstructured storytelling.
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This article discusses Stalin-era plotlessness, or nonclassical storytelling.
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There is a strong correlation between conflictlessness and plotlessness. Conflicts provide material actions and goals that generate drama and help plots unfold.
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What I shall call plotlessness is incomplete or unstructured plotting, which makes this term a terminological synecdoche.
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Plotlessness resulted from an aborted transition to conventional storytelling in the mid-1930s when theme replaced story as the driving force behind narratives.
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I examine the phenomenon of plotlessness, its history, and its causes during the Stalin period to show, contrary to conventional wisdom, that many Stalin-era films were not classically constructed.
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How Structured
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Plotlessness is made from plot ('the story in a book or film') plus -less ('without') and -ness (a quality). So it means the quality of having no clear story, like a film that wanders with no map for the events.
