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1.1 -- 200(7)8 Film Art

Bordwell Textbook : chapter [ 1 ] 2 and 3

Film & Movies: Part I -- Movies

... The beginning -- When movies were films.

Dog's Life : Chaplin (First "200 words")

Select one part (1-5) for your analysis

Homework -- define the character/hero

Comedy, drama?

What is the message?

Where does exposition end?

Conflict? How many?

Name the situation

Justify each episode

[ online forms to make, instead of handouts ]

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* Part 2 -- Form (Total System)

Term to introduce :

FORM [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms Plato : The forms that we see, according to Plato, are not real, but literally mimic the real Forms. In the Allegory of the cave expressed in Republic, the things we ordinarily perceive in the world are characterized as shadows of the real things, which we do not perceive directly. That which the observer understands when he views the mimics are the archetypes of the many types and properties (that is, of universals) of things we see all around us. [ useful in film theory because of "recording" of the Real, almost as to IDEAS ]

STYLE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style Style may refer to Genre, a loose set of criteria for a category or composition [ explain ]

-- wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_style : In film theory, genre refers to the primary method of film categorization based on similarities in the narrative elements from which films are constructed. Most theories of film genre are borrowed from literary genre criticism. As with genre in a literary context, there is a great deal of debate over how to define or categorize genres.
Film genres can be categorized according to their setting, theme topic, mood, and format [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]

* see dictionary/glossary.

Structure (Aristotle, Poetics) -- screenplays

... The Wizard of Oz [ ch.2 ]

"Motivation(s)" of signs, symbols, icons (semiotics)

1. Referential Meaning (use Chaplin)

2. Explicit Meaning

3. Implicit Meaning (interpretation)

4. Symptomatic (ideology)

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Principles of Film Form

Function

Similarity and Repetition (motif)

Difference and Variation

Development

[ Plot Segmentation ] scenes/chapters

Unity/Disunity

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3 - Narrative [ch.3 textbook]

Film-North [promo]

-- Old (first) Movies Page.

movies -- list [vote]