bookend technique

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00:55 Jun 8, 2020
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Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
Additional field(s): Media / Multimedia
English term or phrase: bookend technique
Definition from Reel Club:
In popular cinema, the bookend technique is most often used to refer to a parallel between the opening and closing sequences or shots in a film. The first scene is re-visioned, with only minor changes, in the film’s final scene leaving the audience with a feeling of completion; what was started is now finished.

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  • Video essayist Jacob T. Swinney captured our attention in a big way with a simple video that juxtaposed the first frames of a film with the last. He's back with the third installment of his popular "First and Final Frames" series, complete with some of the best films of the year, to give us the chance to explore, once again, the way films are bookended and what can be learned from it. No Film School
  • But Soderbergh knows how to make a sleek thriller, and such keen professionalism would be missed, from the film’s bookends and fine cynicism as chilly as the ending of “Contagion,” to its prismatic, centripetal play with who the central character really is. New City Film
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Definition from Film- und Fernsehanalyse Einführung der:
Ein »Bookend« ist also ein Ende, das irgendeine Art von Übereinstimmung mit dem Beginn der Erzählung aufweist, etwa die am Beginn eingeführte »Rahmenhandlung« wieder aufnimmt oder an den Schauplatz des Anfangs zurückkehrt etc.

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  • „Alles über Eva“ definiert in der Filmanalyse ein spezifisches Merkmal für ein Ende, das Übereinstimmungen mit dem Beginn einer Erzählung aufweist. Man spricht hier von einem „Bookend“ oder einem „All about Eve Ending“. - Wikipedia  
  • Auch Anfang und Ende von [Fiona] formen ein bookend. - Film- und Fernsehanalyse Einführung der  

Explanation:
Es gibt leider keinen richtig deutschen Begriff dafür. Wenn das Konzept dann doch einmal thematisiert wird, greifen manche Autoren auch auf den Begriff der "Reprise" zurück, der jedoch weitaus weniger spezifisch ist.
Nils Leo
Germany
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