FIST 332 Lecture 3: Week 3_ Film Genre
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Musical as a dialectic btw the realist and expressionist tendencies of cinema pg. 41 context - dubbing in musicals, kind of longshots used to preserve real reality, wholeness in performance, short cuts to be more expressive. Gold diggers - clear cut real vs expressionist/story view. American in paris - more meshed together worlds/more motivated by whatever, can be motivated by whatever was on their mind. Hays code - obliquely tackling issues, rather than directly contacting them, unresolved pushed pull between realistic and expressionistic. Quote - thought in stylistic terms - mise en scene, cinematography created huge differences in the feel of the film in terms of how they were executed. Dialectic - ceaseless struggle, no settling (a good thing!: addressing issued of six indirectly. Hays code era - majority of musical devoid of actual sex. Uses musical performance to represent sex - dancing - kelly and caron. A good couple because they dance real good.
