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CinemaWeek 8 – Humanities G125
Rasmussen CollegePaige Shreeve Welle
The Art of Creating Awe
Art and Propoganda
D.W. Griffith – Birth of a NationSympathetic after the Civil War to KKK and the South
Sergei Eisenstein – The Battleship PotemkinFavorable 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
Farce
Animated
Film Noir
Romantic Comedy
Screen Musical
The Western
Horror and Suspense Films
Social Issues
Documentaries and Docudramas
Fictionalized Biography
Slapstick ComedyCharlie Chaplin – The Little Tramp
Social Consciousness – showed the “survivor”
Outwits bullies and villains
Works hard
FarceThe Marx Brothers
Groucho, Chico and Harpo
Animated FilmBegan in the 1930s with Mickey Mouse, Snow White in 1936
New animated films appeal to both children and adults
Example: Ratatouille
Film Noir1940s and 50s
Portrayed dark and gloomy underworld of crime and corruption
Heroes are just as disillusioned as the villains
D.O.A
Romantic ComediesThese have been around since the 1930s—Depression era—Escapism films
Lots of well known actors
Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn
New RomComsNot always a rosy ending
RomComs have gone from gender equal to a “slacker/striver” formula – Knocked Up
As Good as it Gets
The MusicalDirty Dancing – no singing, just dancing—new
Chicago
Moulin Rouge
These were not the light-hearted musicals of the 40s and 50s
The WesternVery 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 SuspenseAlfred Hitchcock
Luis Bunuel –Spanish Director – 1929 film Un Chien Andalou – appeared to show an eyeball being cut open –
Today? Saw, Paranormal, etc.
Social IssuesIt’s a Wonderful Life—Frank Capra
Do the Right Thing – Spike Lee
Film AuteurAuteur = author
Ingmar BergmanSwedish Director 1918 – 2007
The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries
Central characters wonder why they are in this world.
Does life have a purpose?
Federico FelliniMovies with very ambiguous meanings – is God angry, or is God missing from people’s lives?
Most famous movie was 8 1/2
Alfred HitchcockMaster 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 CoppolaMade 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
Direction
Cinematography
Screenwriting
Sound
Editing
Art Direction
The End