ENGB70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bruce Conner, Un Chien Andalou, Cinema Of The United States
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Movements in film concur contemporaneously in europe: german expressionism (1920-1927, soviet montage (1924-1929, french surrealism (1920s) Bruce conner: man v. machine, v. nature, v. man, american cinema expectations and conventions; values, patriotism. Asks: what is cinema? functions of cinema, conventions of genre camera as a tool of colonial oppression to set up an orchestral score to guide us through these images. Ultimately, film/the camera attempts to rationalize a very subjective experience of the world. Yoko ono"s work represents an extreme end of experimental films close-ups of bottoms of famous actors as they are walking. Genre: how they can be subverted, reimagined, reinterpreted they address specific social issues, challenge popular myths: ultimately a framework for social analysis. New hollywood cinema emerged in the late 1960s early 1980s thus came a visible new ambition in filmmaking to shape/rethink the function of cinema. Movie brats : visibly tried to set themselves apart from their predecessors, martin scorcese, francis ford coppola.
