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Teaching with Film Michelle Onley Pirkle
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Teaching with Film “Upgrade” literature or composition course Film Studies (History & Aesthetics course or Adaptation*)
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Teaching with Film Positive Holds attention (entertaining) Different teaching tool Cultural Studies Images & audio to read Seen as reward
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Teaching with Film Michelle Onley Pirkle
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Teaching with Film Positive Holds attention (entertaining) Different teaching tool Cultural Studies Images & audio to read Seen as reward
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Teaching with Film Negative Seen as reward
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Teaching with Film Negative Seen as reward—tasty dessert
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Teaching with Film Positive Tasty dessert healthy sandwich
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Teaching with Film
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Mise en Scène Film as Visual Storytelling
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Mise en Scène Camera: angle, lens, filter, shot type Composition: design, organization Color: dominant, contrast, symbolism Actors: position, proximity, body, expression Setting: place, space, materials Lighting: brightness, contrast, Depth: planes, foreground background Framing: tight or loose Form: open or closed, balance
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Mise en Scène
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Super 8 Director: J. J. Abrams Producer: Stephen Spielberg
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Mise en Scène Giannetti, Louis. Understanding Movies. 12th ed. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2011. Print.
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Find “Ways In” Duchovatip #2 Costumes, Screenwriting, Music History, Movie Posters, Actors Cinematography, Theme (ex.: War) Acting Style (ex.: Method Acting), Genre Titles, Choreography, Censorship Special Effects (Technology), Set Design Class/Gender/Sexuality Director (Auteur Theory)*, Adaptation*
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Auteur Theory
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Director as author or auteur of film (patterns of motifs & themes) France (1954)–François Truffaut, Cahiers du Cinéma (directors: Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks) U. S.—Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice Controversial (Pauline Kael— collaboration)
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Adaptation Studies
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BOOK FILMFILM
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Levels of Adaptation Literal: word-for-word Faithful: captures spirit Loose: little resemblance
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Adaptation Studies Film Novel Short story Video Game Board Game Comic book Toy Historical Event Person Song Painting
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“Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads” Thomas Leitch (2008) Swamp of Fidelity Sea of Intertextuality
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“Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads” Thomas Leitch (2008) Swamp of Fidelity Sea of Intertextuality
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“Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads” Thomas Leitch (2008) Swamp of Fidelity Sea of Intertextuality
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“Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads” Thomas Leitch (2008) Swamp of Fidelity Sea of Intertextuality
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“Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads” Thomas Leitch (2008) Swamp of Fidelity Sea of Intertextuality
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“Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads” Thomas Leitch (2008) Swamp of Fidelity Adaptation 1.1 (2008): 63-77 Sea of Intertextuality (Bakhtin— “no single source”)
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Approaches to Adaptation “The medium is the message.” Marshall McLuhan (1964)
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Approaches to Adaptation “What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (And Vice Versa)” Seymour Chatman(1980)
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Approaches to Adaptation “What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (And Vice Versa)” Seymour Chatman(1980) Affordances Novel Film Asserts Presents Describes Depicts Focus Overspecification
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Approaches to Adaptation “What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (And Vice Versa)” Seymour Chatman(1980) Affordances Novel Film Name music Play music Reader controls time Director controls time
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Teaching with Film
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Positive Tasty dessert healthy sandwich
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Teaching with Film Film Sandwich Introduction (director, cultural context, focus) Handout (info & questions over form & content) Film presentation (the chicken!) Written assignment Discussion (groups & full class)
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Adaptation Studies BOOK FILMFILM
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Adaptation—Intro (1) 1963 20092009
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Adaptation—Intro (1) 1960 1981 1970
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Maurice Sendak 1960 1981 1970
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Spike Jonze 20031999 2002
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Adaptation—Handout (2) Questions Information Images
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Adaptation—Presentation (3) Opening Scenes 18 minutes
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Adaptation—Writing (4) Class answers question(s) Each group answers question (s)
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Adaptation—Discussion (5) Each group discusses question(s) Class discusses question(s)
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Teaching with Film Michelle Onley Pirkle
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