FILM 2P91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anthropocentrism, ¡Que Viva México!, Sergei Eisenstein
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Tries to understand what the message is, what it"s about, acting good, etc. Identification shifts from marion to norman bates in psycho . Causes and effects that are spread over a certain period of time. Psycho was a big influence on the slasher films that emerged in britain in the late 1960s and later in the us . Impulse to take a phenomenon and ask general questions. Deals with basic principles rather than specific objects. Medicine uses abstractions to describe how certain parts of human body work. No two legs, eyes or fingers are identical. Doctors need the generalized knowledge about each body part in order to beat it effectively. Theory is an explanation of something which makes generalizations about objects in order to understand the nature of an object or phenomenon and how it works. A generalized systematic explanation of the nature, forms, and functions of film.
