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Beth Dagitses

Green Cine Primers - 0 views

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    This is a good overview of the history of film and various movements and genres.
Edward Wolf

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I found this Brazilian Film from 1969 to be totally interesting. It was part of the Tropicalia Movement in Brazil and I found it fascinating. This is a youtube link to that leads you to see the mov...

started by Edward Wolf on 30 May 12 no follow-up yet
Josh Dockall

Philosophy of Film (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

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  • For Bazin, the important dichotomy is not that between the sound and the silent film but rather between films that focus on the image and those that emphasize editing
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      An interesting dichotomy - does the use of more advanced technology change the nature of the film itself?
  • To coin a phrase, it takes a village to make a movie
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      Why, in some people's minds, auteur theory does not work.
  • the director of the film is the creative intelligence who shapes the entire film in a manner parallel to how we think of, say, literary works being authored.
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      i.e. Stanley Kubrick films are mostly similar, Alfred Hitchcock films are mostly similar, George Lucas films are mostly similar, etc.
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  • Why should we care what happens to fictional characters?
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      Audience sympathies are strong forces - kill a character and kill a movement.
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