ABSTRACT
The notion of style in cinema plays a number of different roles in different contexts and serves a number of different purposes. In certain contexts, the purpose of the notion of style is to differentiate sets of motion pictures. In this regard, we might speak of the style of a period, a school, a movement, a genre, or even a nation. Likewise we might use the notion of style to differentiate one director in contrast to another – for example, to mark what distinguishes Jean Renoir from other directors, such as Sergei Eisenstein.
