Pearson Longman © 2009 THE ART OF BEING HUMAN HU300 John Ragan

Our agenda for this seminar Finishing Unit 8 Finishing Unit 8 Looking ahead to Unit 9 Looking ahead to Unit 9 The final project The final project

First…any questions? Any questions about the course, or the assignments? Any questions about the course, or the assignments?

Unit 8  Unit 8 – human expression through Film

CONVENTIONS 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 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 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 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 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. Documentaries – a nonfiction film that usually has a narrator but not a structured storyline. Winged Migration 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 CLASSICS o Citizen Kane o Casablanca Pearson Longman © 2009

THE 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 Francis Ford Coppola o The Godfather Trilogy o Apocalypse Now Martin Scorsese 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

What film genres appeal to you? And…do you think a film should have a moral lesson? Is this similar to the other arts that are found in the Humanities (painting, music, literature, etc)? Pearson Longman © 2009

Looking ahead to Unit 9 On the topic of popular culture: On the topic of popular culture: Items, lifestyles, products, etc., Items, lifestyles, products, etc., that are known by, accepted by, that are known by, accepted by, or followed by a large segment or followed by a large segment of the population. of the population.

Popular culture… what things would you say are part of current American popular culture?

UNIT 9 There is no reading assignment – instead, you are asked to view a part of a PBS special on advertising in modern America.

Unit 9 There also is a discussion assignment and a seminar… There also is a discussion assignment and a seminar… The Unit 9 seminar is our final seminar of the course! The Unit 9 seminar is our final seminar of the course! The final project is due in Unit 9 The final project is due in Unit 9

Final projects  Per the Kaplan late policy: Late final projects must receive prior approval by the instructor. The project will need to be reduced by one letter grade (if the project would have received a B, it will need to be given a C, etc)