POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: John Frankenheimer, Personalization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Markus Sharaput

Document Summary

Pol-128: the making of a message film production techniques and political. Conception: refers to the idea of making a film: smaller independent films more likely to contain overt political messages than. Production: main role of film producer = maintain financial viability (watching the budget, focus of films are more commercial than artistic -> money is the motive. Hollywood has nothing against message films as long as they make money (john frankenheimer, 1984: movies with overt political messages avoided -> tend to be unsuccessful. Movie conventions (used to minimize political conflict: personalization: focus on the individual drama of politically active roles instead of political event itself, sugarcoating: covering potential political content with other genres (ex: The unlabelled bottle : using extremely generic terms to avoid controversy: ambivalence: present both sides of a political conflict equally. Direction: realism: filmmaking style -> imitates/duplicates reality, formalism: emphasizes aesthetic forms and symbols rather than what really is.