%0 Journal Article %T Cinema, Contingencies, Metaphysics %A Peter Kravanja %J Image and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative %D 2011 %I Katholieke Universiteit Leuven %X (E): What impact do contingencies have on protagonists in narrative film? Using examples from films by Eric Rohmer and Chantal Akerman, I consider this question from a metaphysical point of view in order to suggest how the perceived dichotomy between classical and modernist cinema is not as straightforward as it may at first appear. (F): Quel est l'impact d'un ¨¦v¨¦nement contingent sur les personages d'un film narratif ? A partir d'exemples tir¨¦s de films d'Eric Rohmer et de Chantal Akerman, je consid¨¨re cette question d'un point de vue m¨¦taphysique pour sugg¨¦rer que la dichotomie entre le cin¨¦ma classique et le cin¨¦ma moderne n'est pas aussi claire qu'il para t au premier abord. %K contingencies in narrative cinema %K analytic metaphysics %K Rohmer %K Jeanne Dielman %U http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/149