CTCS 200g Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Al Jolson, Silent Film, Sync Sound
27 May 2016
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Lm doesn"t go back to battles/action stuff dreyer was driven to make movie when he found transcript from the trial itself. >unprecendented use of close-ups audience feels unsituated/mysti ed/confused/ a mystical experience becomes possible because oating in a non-space that doesn"t feel like a reality not really any wide classic establishing shots. To shake up the audience so that they would feel the suffering that joan endured on their own skin - Dreyer cinema as an art of skin an art that deals with the surfaces play and movement of light on surfaces the audience feeling the emotion on their skin . Not worried about matching eyeliner, or direction of movement. Dreyer doesn"t want you to feel comfortable with continuous invisible edits. 1927 studios in hw decided to give voice beyond silent surface adding sound! 1927: warner brothers releases the jazz singer (a part-silent, part-sound lm) featuring star al.
