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CONVENTIONS OF FILMCONVENTIONS OF FILM Conventions are the conditions accepted by the audience. Cinematography is the way in which the camera tells the story. Pearson Longman © 2009

CONVENTIONS OF FILM Conventions o establishing sh ot o close-up o sound o background music o point of view Pearson Longman © 2009

CONVENTIONS OF FILM Conventions o intercut o elongated moment o lingering take o pan o dissolve Pearson Longman © 2009

CONVENTIONS OF FILM Conventions o freeze frames o tracking shot o cut o quick cut o flip Pearson Longman © 2009

EARLY MILESTONESEARLY MILESTONES Invention o Thomas Edison “peep show” & projector technology Arts and Propaganda o D.W. Griffith – The Birth of a Nation o Eisenstein - Potemkin Pearson Longman © 2009

MAJOR FILM GENRESMAJOR FILM GENRES Slapstick Comedy o Chaplin & the Little Tramp – Gold Rush, Modern Times Farce o Marx Brothers – A Night at the Opera Pearson Longman © 2009

MAJOR FILM GENRES Animated Film o Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs o Who Framed Roger Rabbit? o Ratatouille Pearson Longman © 2009

MAJOR FILM GENRES Film Noir o Huston - The Maltese Falcon o Wilder - Double Indemnity o Truffaut - Shoot the Piano Player Pearson Longman © 2009

MAJOR 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 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 GENRES The Western o Destry Rides Again o High Noon o Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid o Dances with Wolves Pearson Longman © 2009

MAJOR 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

MAJOR FILM GENRES Social Issues o Do the Right Thing o Tales from the Hood o The Lives of Others Pearson Longman © 2009

MAJOR FILM GENRES Documentaries & 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 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 Pearson Longman © 2009

MAJOR FILM GENRES Fictionalized Biography o The Agony and the Ecstasy (Michelangelo) o Lust for Life (van Gogh) o Amadeus (Mozart) o La Vie en Rose (Piaf) Pearson Longman © 2009

MAJOR FILM GENRES Adaptations o The Killers (Hemingway’s “The Killers” o Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy) o Troy ( The Iliad) Pearson Longman © 2009

TWO AMERICAN CLASSICSTWO AMERICAN CLASSICS o Citizen Kane o Casablanca Pearson Longman © 2009

THE FILM AUTEURTHE FILM AUTEUR Ingmar Bergman o The Seventh Seal o Wild Strawberries Federico Fellini o La Stada o La Dolce Vita o 8 1/2 Pearson Longman © 2009

THE FILM AUTEUR Alfred Hitchcock o Shadow of a Doubt o The Birds o Psycho Akira Kurosawa o The Seven Samurai o Throne of Blood o Ran Pearson Longman © 2009

THE FILM AUTEUR Stanley Kubrick o Paths of Glory o Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb o A Clockwork Orange Pearson Longman © 2009

THE 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 AUTEUR Pedro Almodovar o To sobre mi madre (All About My Mother) o Hable con ella (Talk to Her) Pearson Longman © 2009

NOTES ON CRITICAL VIEWING 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 probability Pearson Longman © 2009