Robin Chapman, School of English, University of Sheffield rewchapman1@sheffield.ac.uk Passing Through the Pane Within his 1979 article ‘The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice’ David Bordwell attempts to define and categorise art cinema as a ‘logically coherent mode of cinematic discourse’.[1]  Here he notes that specifically European films of the 1950s and 60s define themselves ‘against the classical …