2007 : Ch. 3 & 4 Bordwell : Wild Strawberries (compare with Kane) 7 webpages/chapters archive {"Film Analysis": Monaco, Part 3. Film Language [ & part 5. Form ]} Script Analysis Directory & DramLit Links Featured Pages: Film Directing After we decided WHAT to shoot; we ask HOW to shoot it (what choiced to make: the paradigmic) and HOW to present the shot (how to edit it: the syntagmatic). Summary Yes, Film must be Part II, this is the only way to get to Part III -- Theory (and Media, Monaco). Questions The Classics (Bergman and Co.) twice: first -- intro, second time at the end of the semester (after studied part 3 -- theory). Not only the same names (directors), but also only one title each, if I want it to be showcases (Berman & Wild Strawberries). Notes Godfather + Study Guide PDF Film Concepts "Sing - Signifier - Signified": index 5 types of motange (Pudovdkin): contrast, parallelism, symbolism, simultaneity, leftmotif. (climax in Godfather II -- how many types?) Metz in Monaco 209 Film Analysis: Film Art Bergman Page Wild Strawberries * script in class + fragments First Dream (storyboard), as if in THR470 Film Directing "Seven Ages of Man" (Shakespeare) & Sphinx of Oedipus. Narrative and Narrator(s) : in Kane and Dr. Borg.

Film & Movies

Metz: "When a 'language' does not exist, one must be something of an artist to speak it, however poorly. For to speak it is partly to invent it, whereas to speak the language of everyday is simply to use it." Monaco 163 (The Language of Film: Signs and Syntax)

New subdirectory, new pages:

Monaco:

3. THE LANGUAGE OF FILM: SIGNS AND SYNTAX

Signs
The Physiology of Perception
Denotative and Connotative Meaning

Syntax

Codes

Mise-en-Scene

The Framed Image

The Diachronic Shot

Sound

Montage

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4. THE SHAPE OF FILM HISTORY

Movies/Film/Cinema

"Movies": Economics

"Film": Politics

"Cinema": Esthetics
Creating an Art: Lumiere versus Melies
The Silent Feature: Realism versus Expressionism
Hollywood: Genre versus Auteur
Neorealism and After: Hollywood versus the World
The New Wave and the Third World: Entertainment versus Communication
The Postmodern Sequel: Democracy, Technology, End of Cinema

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5. FILM THEORY: FORM AND FUNCTION

The Critic

The Poet and the Philosopher:

Expressionism and Realism: Arnheim and Kracauer

Montage: Pudovkin, Eisenstein, and Formalism

Mise-en-Scene: Neorealism, Bazin, and Godard

Film Speaks and Acts: Metz and Contemporary Theory

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Notes: next is film.vtheatre.net/3 -- Media + Theory *

Samples of storyboarding from Film directing class -- we will do some too (including homework).

Use your "comics experience"!

More on film-north pages!

Image/Symbol of paperweight (Kane) -- Do we know Kane? ...

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