Cinema Week 8 – Humanities G125 Rasmussen College Paige Shreeve Welle

The Art of Creating Awe

Art and Propoganda D.W. Griffith – Birth of a Nation Sympathetic after the Civil War to KKK and the South Sergei Eisenstein – The Battleship Potemkin Favorable message to the Bolsheviks and Lenin Features a scene in which Czarist soldiers massacre innocent people with a focus on a baby carriage.

Major Film Genres Slapstick Comedy FarceAnimated Film Noir Romantic Comedy Screen Musical The Western Horror and Suspense Films Social Issues Documentaries and Docudramas Fictionalized Biography

Slapstick Comedy Charlie Chaplin – The Little Tramp Social Consciousness – showed the “survivor” Outwits bullies and villains Works hard

Farce The Marx Brothers Groucho, Chico and Harpo

Animated Film Began in the 1930s with Mickey Mouse, Snow White in 1936 New animated films appeal to both children and adults Example: Ratatouille

Film Noir 1940s and 50s Portrayed dark and gloomy underworld of crime and corruption Heroes are just as disillusioned as the villains D.O.A

Romantic Comedies These have been around since the 1930s—Depression era—Escapism films Lots of well known actors Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn

New RomComs Not always a rosy ending RomComs have gone from gender equal to a “slacker/striver” formula – Knocked Up As Good as it Gets

The Musical Dirty Dancing – no singing, just dancing—new Chicago Moulin Rouge These were not the light-hearted musicals of the 40s and 50s

The Western Very American and very Hollywood! Remain popular today Good example of how film can sway your opinion about something. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – two outlaws – you want them to win!!!

Horror and Suspense Alfred Hitchcock Luis Bunuel –Spanish Director – 1929 film Un Chien Andalou – appeared to show an eyeball being cut open – Today? Saw, Paranormal, etc.

Social Issues It’s a Wonderful Life—Frank Capra Do the Right Thing – Spike Lee

Film Auteur Auteur = author

Ingmar Bergman Swedish Director 1918 – 2007 The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries Central characters wonder why they are in this world. Does life have a purpose?

Federico Fellini Movies with very ambiguous meanings – is God angry, or is God missing from people’s lives? Most famous movie was 8 1/2

Alfred Hitchcock Master of Suspense First person to make movies about spies and murders among highly civilized people Real terror comes from what is imagined by the audience before anything is shown. The Birds

Hitchcock Psycho Shower scene lasts only 45 seconds, is composed of 78 distinct shots – you don’t see the actual stabbing Probably the most famous scene in movie history

Francis Ford Coppola Made The Godfather Trilogy – one of the most famous movies or trilogies of all time. Sins of the father condemn the next generations to repeat the same crimes and suffer the vengeance of their enemies. Main character a lot like Hamlet – doesn’t want the life he inherits

Conventions of Film DirectionCinematographyScreenwritingSoundEditing Art Direction

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