Open AccessCompensatory Happy Ending as a Typological Group of a Film Finale
Author(s) -
Vasily A Shevtsov
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of film arts and film studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2471
pISSN - 2074-0832
DOI - 10.17816/vgik9290-99
Subject(s) - group (periodic table) , diversity (politics) , compensation (psychology) , narrative , psychology , aesthetics , art , literature , social psychology , sociology , chemistry , organic chemistry , anthropology
The article investigates a vast group of film finales which can be classified as compensatory happy ends. While occupying different positions on the emotional scale these endings represent the same logical structure: compensation. The author gives extensive examples to illustrate the diversity of narrative solutions provided by the use of such endings.
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