Cultural Anthropology : Hollywood the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie Makers: By Hortense Powdermaker. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1950. 342 pp. $3.50... REVIEW
List your favorite American directors! See 200X egroup for mini-review "My Favorite Movie"
Notes
This class has no Forum; use the Directors Forum. Also, must include into THR470 listing (new directory, see links below).
To use for 200x Files: Aesthetics through film study (under film sibdirectory).
Search The Internet Movie Database Enter part of a movie or TV quote and click "Go" to search the quotes at
imdb.com.
MOVIES = "WILD WEST": AM directors, USA
FILM&DRAMA. Here the border between films and movies is difficult to find. Some of the US directors can do both. Some make films once or twice. Some titles I use for Film-North and other classes. American film industry is about the use of film language, not its development.
I do change some titles from one semester to another, I want even to change the name of the course "Film & Culture" (to stress the social and historical applications of film). Maybe thhe best solution would be to keep the frame of this class, but offer different direction each time. Something like "Film: Comedy" and "Film: Drama" (although I don't want to loose the film language focus).
I recommend to go through the pages of Film & Drama class, if you want to be enrolled in Film Directing classes, or the graduate course "Visions of the Northern Mind"
Also, for the kinds in the Summer Arts Film class, check it out, it will help to move ahead faster.
Notes on Godfather are gone. They (students) know the movie; easy to use as a frame of references. Important to study the genre (drama): between tragedy and comedy! Elements of myth: 3 sons, family (see THEMES or TOPICS), generations, man v. society and etc.
Aesthetic analysis: music, color, casting...
Parallel montage: baptism and killing scene [ godfather ] (other examples)
Screen Event (samples)
Formulas from the 2004 textbook ("Grammar of the Film Language" -- film directing class) [list the most important ones]
