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THE ART OF BEING
HUMAN
9TH EDITION
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CONVENTIONS OF FILM
Conventions are the conditions
accepted by the audience.
Cinematography is the way in which
the camera tells the story.
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CONVENTIONS OF FILM
Conventions
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establishing shot
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close-up
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sound
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background music
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point of view
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CONVENTIONS OF FILM
Conventions
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intercut
elongated moment
lingering take
pan
dissolve
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CONVENTIONS OF FILM
Conventions
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freeze frames
tracking shot
cut
quick cut
flip
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EARLY MILESTONES
Invention
o Thomas Edison “peep show” & projector
technology
Arts and Propaganda
o D.W. Griffith – The Birth of a Nation
o Eisenstein - Potemkin
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Slapstick Comedy
o Chaplin & the Little Tramp – Gold
Rush, Modern Times
Farce
o Marx Brothers – A Night at the
Opera
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Animated Film
o Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs
o Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
o Ratatouille
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Film Noir
o Huston - The Maltese Falcon
o Wilder - Double Indemnity
o Truffaut - Shoot the Piano
Player
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Romantic Comedy
o It Happened One Night
o The Philadelphia Story (comedy of
manners)
o Adam’s Rib
o When Harry Met Sally
o As Good as It Gets
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Romantic Comedy
o Monsoon Wedding
o Lost in Translation
Screen Musical
o Singin’ in the Rain
o Dirty Dancing
o Shall We Dance?
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
The Western
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Destry Rides Again
o High Noon
o Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
o Dances with Wolves
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Horror and Suspense
o Un Chien Andalou
Social Issues
o Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
o It’s a Wonderful Life
o Grapes of Wrath
o Sullivan’s Travels
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Social Issues
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Do the Right Thing
o Tales from the Hood
o The Lives of Others
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Documentaries & Docudramas
Documentaries – a nonfiction film that usually
has a narrator but not a structured storyline.
o Titicut Follies
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Winged Migration
Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine,
Fahrenheit 9/11
An Inconvenient Truth
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Documentaries & Docudramas
Docudrama – a nonfiction film that has
not only a narrator but characters,
either real people or actors, and a
story line.
o Ladybird, Ladybird
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Fictionalized Biography
o The Agony and the Ecstasy
(Michelangelo)
o Lust for Life (van Gogh)
o Amadeus (Mozart)
o La Vie en Rose (Piaf)
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Adaptations
o The Killers (Hemingway’s “The
Killers”
o Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy)
o Troy ( The Iliad)
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TWO AMERICAN CLASSICS
o Citizen Kane
o Casablanca
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THE FILM AUTEUR
Ingmar Bergman
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The Seventh Seal
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Wild Strawberries
Federico Fellini
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La Stada
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La Dolce Vita
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8 1/2
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THE FILM AUTEUR
Alfred Hitchcock
o Shadow of a Doubt
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The Birds
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Psycho
Akira Kurosawa
o The Seven Samurai
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Throne of Blood
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Ran
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THE FILM AUTEUR
Stanley Kubrick
o Paths of Glory
o Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned
to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
o A Clockwork Orange
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THE FILM AUTEUR
Francis Ford Coppola
o The Godfather Trilogy
o Apocalypse Now
Martin Scorsese
o Mean Streets
o Age of Innocence
o The Departed
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THE FILM AUTEUR
Pedro Almodovar
o To sobre mi madre (All About My
Mother)
o Hable con ella (Talk to Her)
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NOTES ON CRITICAL
VIEWING
Some criteria to determine the merit of a film:
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Use of a style unique to cinema
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Characters with complex inner lives
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Relevance to the times
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Integrity
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Avoidance of stereotypes
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Gravity of theme
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No violations of probability
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