Suture

Suture

• Classical Hollywood narrative, editing, sound and miss-en-scene 'sutures' or positions the audience in certain ways making only one preferred reading (reception theory) possible, however unconscious the audience is of that position.
• The theory stems from the literary and film theories of Roland Barthes, Stephen Heath, Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, but was formulated by Daniel Day in his "The Tutor code of classical cinema" (1974)

According to these theories, the audience "stitches" itself into a film, and then filling in the temporal and spatial gaps between scenes with our imaginations. 

This is made all the easier when means, techniques, codes and conventions of film are made "invisible" by the film makers.