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Josh Dockall

Media Glossary - 0 views

  • A glossary covering audio, video, film, television, graphics, Internet and general media production.
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      A comprehensive glossary with easy-to-understand definitions for some not-so-easy-to-understand terms
Josh Dockall

Jim's Film Website - 4 views

  • A Basic Guide to Film
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      This is a decent introduction to the various elements of film - it is fairly comprehensive in detail in regards to the various elements in play with film-making, mise-en-scene, etc.
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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Film-Philosophy - 0 views

  • Why Is Touch Sometimes So Touching?: The Phenomenology of Touch in Susan Streitfeld’s Female Perversions
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      Example for Independent Study?
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    Philosophy of Film articles - Use as supplementary information for research
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Philosophy of Film: Continental Perspectives [Internet Encyclopedia of Philos... - 0 views

  • (1) that film is undergoing a philosophical
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      Questions: How? Why?
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    Philosophy of Film - Continental Perspectives
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