Temporal programming in the cinema: the representation of the order of events

Abstract

The possibilities that cinema offers for the analysis involving the category of time in the field of enunciation are many. One of them is particularly focused on what the French semiotic means by the temporal programming, i.e., the representation of the order of events. The story in a movie can be told in various ways and events can be ordered as a result of requirements established for a way to count them. Based on that, what I propose in this paper is to check how the cinema operates on this particular category of time and how the timing is represented in the diegesis of the films. For this, certain aspects will be observed here as guidelines for the representation of the order of events: the concurrently, the succession and the reversal.