Borzage's Visual Opera -- Coursera notes

Minimal Plots Embellished with Imagery
 Light and shadow

Intensive Visuality
 He is an auteur who is all about the visual.
    Push all story information he can into the visual plane.

Transcedent Romance
   Up and down

Operatic melodrama
  A close-up of a character gazing upward with light in their eyes

Emotiaonal and Poetic motifs:
   window, whistle, fog
   painting: a carrier of emotion


"Make the audience sentimental, not the player."