FILM 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Le Transperceneige, Snowpiercer, Signified And Signifier
13 Apr 2016
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Need for stories ideological ways of seeing and shaping our world. Ways in which we organize our culture ilm has a signiiant global impact in spreading stories individual versus the collecive in snowpiercer. Class diference elite group at front of the train. 1982 graphic novel from france ilm adaptaion puts emphasis on diferent concerns adapted to address contemporary issues reminds us how important story structure, and stories are to us. Genre and pleasure set of expectaions that allow us to enjoy the cinemaic text part of our pleasure in viewing ilms- and part of why we choose the ilms we choose to watch. Snowpiercer uses the acion genre (and more speciically the hyper-acion, hyper-violence associated with the south korean acion genre) Acing with purpose genre aids in this- we know what we want" characters to do (and what sorts of situaions we anicipate seeing them in) opening exposiion scenes establish our ainity with characters and their goals.
