ENGFLM 1703 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mise-En-Scène, Pulp Magazine, Italian Neorealism
15 Nov 2017
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Italian neorealism was italy"s reaction- it is a film movement: german expatriates (film personnel who had fled germany and. Europe to escape persecution) and thus german expressionism. Hard boiled tradition: a literary genre (hemingway, hammett, chandler, etc. , tough /cynical way of acting and thinking, pulp fiction, journalism, detective fiction . Swanson sunset boulevard: multiple modes happening re star image diegetically and exradiegetically, 1. Her glamour is perennial and undying: 4. Glamour not consumption but self control in eating and exercise. Gender flip: inversion in terms of economics, power in the relationship, ex. suit buying, assumes that they are living together, makes it maternal, but they are having a sexual relationship (incest-ual feeling, perversion, her baby is a monkey . Disgust in women because they can"t procreate anymore because of menopause. Internal thought of joe as narrative: he says that he hates his situation but he doesn"t show that on the screen he waits in the car for her, etc.
