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THE ART OF BEING HUMAN9TH EDITION
CONVENTIONS OF FILMCONVENTIONS OF FILM
Conventions are the conditions accepted by the audience.
Cinematography is the way in which the camera tells the story.
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CONVENTIONS OF FILMCONVENTIONS OF FILM
Conventions o establishing shot
o close-up
o sound
o background music
o point of view
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CONVENTIONS OF FILMCONVENTIONS OF FILM
Conventionso intercuto elongated momento lingering takeo pano dissolve
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CONVENTIONS OF FILMCONVENTIONS OF FILM
Conventionso freeze frameso tracking shoto cuto quick cuto flip
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EARLY MILESTONESEARLY MILESTONES
Inventiono Thomas Edison “peep show” &
projector technology
Arts and Propagandao D.W. Griffith – The Birth of a Nation
o Eisenstein - Potemkin
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MAJOR FILM GENREMAJOR FILM GENRESS
Slapstick Comedyo Chaplin & the Little Tramp – Gold
Rush, Modern Times
Farceo Marx Brothers – A Night at the
Opera
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MAJOR FILM GENRESMAJOR FILM GENRES
Animated Filmo Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs
o Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
o Ratatouille
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MAJOR FILM GENRESMAJOR FILM GENRES
Film Noiro Huston - The Maltese Falcon
o Wilder - Double Indemnity
o Truffaut - Shoot the Piano Player
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MAJOR FILM GENRESMAJOR FILM GENRES
Romantic Comedy
o It Happened One Night
o The Philadelphia Story (comedy of manners)
o Adam’s Rib
o When Harry Met Sally
o As Good as It Gets Pearson Longman © 2009
MAJOR FILM GENRESMAJOR FILM GENRES
Romantic Comedy
o Monsoon Wedding
o Lost in Translation
Screen Musical
o Singin’ in the Rain
o Dirty Dancing
o Shall We Dance? Pearson Longman © 2009
MAJOR FILM GENRESMAJOR FILM GENRES
The Western
o Destry Rides Again
o High Noon
o Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
o Dances with Wolves
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MAJOR FILM GENRESMAJOR FILM GENRES
Horror and Suspense
o Un Chien Andalou
Social Issues
o Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
o It’s a Wonderful Life
o Grapes of Wrath
o Sullivan’s Travels Pearson Longman © 2009
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Social Issues
o Do the Right Thing
o Tales from the Hood
o The Lives of Others
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MAJOR FILM GENRESMAJOR FILM GENRESDocumentaries & Docudramas
Documentaries – a nonfiction film that usually has a narrator but not a structured storyline.
o Titicut Follies
o Winged Migration
o Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11
o An Inconvenient Truth Pearson Longman © 2009
MAJOR FILM GENRESMAJOR FILM GENRES
Documentaries & Docudramas
Docudrama – a nonfiction film that has not only a narrator but characters, either real people or actors, and a story line.
o Ladybird, Ladybird
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MAJOR FILM GENRESMAJOR FILM GENRES
Fictionalized Biographyo The Agony and the Ecstasy
(Michelangelo)
o Lust for Life (van Gogh)
o Amadeus (Mozart)
o La Vie en Rose (Piaf)
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MAJOR FILM GENRESMAJOR FILM GENRES
Adaptationso The Killers (Hemingway’s “The
Killers”
o Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy)
o Troy ( The Iliad)
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TWO AMERICAN CLASSICSTWO AMERICAN CLASSICS
o Citizen Kane
o Casablanca
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THE FILM AUTEURTHE FILM AUTEUR
Ingmar Bergmano The Seventh Seal
o Wild Strawberries
Federico Fellinio La Stada
o La Dolce Vita
o 8 1/2
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THE FILM AUTEURTHE FILM AUTEURAlfred Hitchcock
o Shadow of a Doubt
o The Birds
o Psycho
Akira Kurosawa
o The Seven Samurai
o Throne of Blood
o RanPearson Longman © 2009
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Stanley Kubricko Paths of Glory
o Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
o A Clockwork Orange
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THE FILM AUTEURTHE FILM AUTEUR
Francis Ford Coppola
o The Godfather Trilogy
o Apocalypse Now
Martin Scorsese
o Mean Streets
o Age of Innocence
o The Departed Pearson Longman © 2009
THE FILM AUTEURTHE FILM AUTEUR
Pedro Almodovar
o To sobre mi madre (All About My Mother)
o Hable con ella (Talk to Her)
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NOTES ON CRITICAL NOTES ON CRITICAL VIEWINGVIEWING
Some criteria to determine the merit of a film:
o Use of a style unique to cinema
o Characters with complex inner lives
o Relevance to the times
o Integrity
o Avoidance of stereotypes
o Gravity of theme
o No violations of probabilityPearson Longman © 2009