ENGB70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Blackboard, Lowkey, Diegesis
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> take-home format - completing on blackboard - cover readings, films, lectures sept 11-oct 2. > 2 parts - 10 points 2) 15 points - short answer question. > mon oct 2nd at 8pm to friday oct. > can consider cache as in art cinema: early cinema. > controversial figure b/c of his view about race and american nationalism. > social and formal context in film - he"s attempt to gloify pre united states - > way he built upon narrative techniques: lonedale operators 1911. Griffith is developing these techniques in a lot of films. Part 2: german expressionism and art cinema the cabinet of dr. caligari. > doesn"t necessarily have distinct style. some of the elements we see coming up have a distorted value. > highly stylised and distorted - not realisitc rather trying to show world how an anixous tormented artist might feel. > when germanist experssion films emerged - revitalized and mainstream styles from german expressionalism
