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Film Genres and Auteurs
• Dr. Mark Nicholls• Dr. Athena Bellas• Ann Turner (Guest Lecturer)
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“All models are wrong, some are useful”
• Subject Focus 2015:• To achieve fullest understanding of 13+ ‘must
see’ films and their makers• Ann Turner (writer/director) Case Study• Further understand Genre and Auteurism as
critical paradigms• Problematise these and explain the
productive/destructive tension between them
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Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977) & Modern Times (1936)
• Lecture Overview:• 1. Close Analysis (1- to 18.00 mins)• 2. The Tramp and The Show Folk Reading • 3. Gesamtkunstwerk and Critiques of
Modernity• 4. Sound, Chaplin and the Modernisation of
Industry• 5. Comments/Questions
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1. Close Analysis (1- to 18.00 mins)
• Film shoot/cutting Oct. 1934 - Aug. 1935• Chaplin early 30s world tour• Script use of “Note: Tramp Business”• Plagiarism claim A Nous La Liberte (Rene Clair)• Factory worker/Tramp ?• Parody of Newsreel style• Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
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1. Close Analysis (1- to 18.00 mins)
• 16, 18, 24 frames per second• Soviet Historical Montage (Eisenstein)• Diegetic Sound• Efficiency and time/motion study• Bee and clichés of Nature• Compartmentalisation / Interpellation• Surrealist Reading of Chaplin: Mad Love
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1. Close Analysis (1- to 18.00 mins)
• Factory trauma and shell shock• Chaplin’s own childhood poverty• Obsessive compulsive/ hysteria• Editing strategies/film speed (f/p/s)• Vaslav Nijinksy and the Ballets Russes
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2. The Tramp and The Show Folk Reading
• Tramp and Modernity incompatible?• Chaplin and personal creative renewal?• The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)• All about show business?• Paulette Godard (1910-1990)• Sound film c. 1927• Factory – Department Store – Domestic bliss
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2. The Tramp and The Show Folk Reading
• Show business and modern mechanisation incompatible ?
• Tramp only has prison or the road?
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3. Gesamtkunstwerk and Critiques of Modernity
• Chaplin as Wagner’s Total Artist• Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes (1909-1929)• Compartmentalistion of Labor• Relationship between the collective and the
genius individual in the total art work• How do Genre and the Auteur map onto this
paradigm ?
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4. Sound, Chaplin and the Modernisation of Industry
• Chaplin’s Romantic Scandals• Chaplin as Communist • Chaplin as industrial threat to Studio System and
standardisation• Vertical Integration of
production/distribution/exhibition• Cinema as pantomime ?• Tramps’s song as critique of sound/System• Buster Keaton, The General (1926)
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Floor Comments/Questions
• “Did Chaplin speak about his process ?”• “Was Chaplin’s fame an impediment to being
taken seriously as an artist ?”• Chaplin as exile from USA.
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Suggested Bibliography/Filmography
• Metropolis (Lang, 1927)• Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein,1925)• Strike (Eisenstein, 1925)• The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)• Thomson, D. The Whole Equation: A History of
Hollywood, Little Brown, 2007.• Cooke, A. Alistair Cooke at the Movies, Penuin,
2011