engleski

"Sojourner“ and Cultural Representations in the Film Narrative

In the light of today’s “pictorial turn”, film as a form is seen as a performative representation of meaning making. A film mode is an active shaper of expression possibilities rather than a passive transmission carrier. Furthermore, film is a- matter-of-fact text and its comprehension is somewhat ascribed to viewer's „common sense“. Thus, description and interpretation of a film narrative deal with the function of cognitive perception and are perceived as acts of critical views of cultural attributions in film. Certain properties, practices and possibilities of a transmedial nature may also refer to different cultural representations in film (e.g.”identity”, “stereotypes”, etc.), as well as contribute to their production. Drawing from the relevant (post)structuralist narratology and semiotics, this article examines such relations. There are two aims. First, to investigate cultural representations of a “sojourner” within a theoretical content-based critic of a film narrative. Second, to address film example(s) for pragmatic purposes of intercultural skills and competences acquisition. The aim is to encourage students of the English Language Course at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula to discuss films about a foreign culture by moving “beyond stereotypes” and thus reflect a greater understanding of various cultural representations in film. For this reason, a survey was conducted to assess students’ attitudes within the teaching unit Culture Shock in Fiction and Film. Expected outcomes of the paper are to induce intercultural dialogue and to set an example for making the applicable acquisition model for academic purposes.

Film ; sojourner ; narratology ; semiotics ; interpretation

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