REALIZATION OF DIALOGISM
Notion initiated in
"Postmodernism in the Cinema of
Woody Allen"
According to Bakhtin, a virtual
dialogue takes place in the human mind between real people and fictional
characters, between real people and mythical figures and between fictional
characters and their author. This abstract notion is fleshed out in cinema
through dramatic action achieved in a variety of audio-visual devices.
The notion
“realization of dialogism” was initiated to describe the mimetic
and cinematic realization of the abstract dialogistic principle of Bakhtin, as
a parallel to the notion of "realization of metaphor", coined by the
Russian formalists. It is a major feature in post-modernistic aesthetics.
“Realization of
Dialogism” expresses the feeling of cultural openness to the multiplicity
of possible polyphonic encounters between people from various chronotops, beyond
time and place, across cultural and ethnic differences, including encounters
between reality and fiction. It is a cinematic enactment of Bakhtin's virtual
dialogue, taking place in the human mind.