FILM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: The Celluloid Closet, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks
9 Oct 2018
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Why study (media) history: history is about interpreting the past. It is about the present & future rather than the past: to evolve. Analogy: fish do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) they"re i(cid:374) (cid:449)ater (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they"re surrou(cid:374)ded (cid:271)y it: we cannot compare the effects of our social media because we are living in this generation (we have nothing to compare it to) Clip watched: the celluloid closet (shows homosexuals in the media) Hollywood in the late 1920s technological change. These people did not handle the technological change well: originally silent films, sound films were beginning, dw griffith started the close-up shot, charlie chaplin, buster keaton, mary pickford, douglas fairbanks. Clips to look into: sunset boulevard, dir. Billy wilder: has many actors from the silent film era, singin" in the rain, dir. Inner life: representation of femininity & masculinity, representation of race (ie. inuit, unravel contradictions.
