CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: His Girl Friday, Continuity Editing, Diegesis
Document Summary
The meanings that spectators make when interacting with a film can be affected profoundly by extratextual materials surrounding that film, including publicity, reviews, Dvd bonus materials, academic analyses, and the social reality that prevails during its production, release, and/or screening. The intertextual relations between two or more films are determined by the connections and/or differences they have between them. The classical film is a product of the hollywood studio system, which began to take shape in the late teens/early 20s, but was fully consolidated during hollywood"s golden. Hollywood studios were vertically integrated companies that drew on their own pool of contracted laborers and developed a distinct identity based on the kinds of films they produced and circulated. The studios engaged in a variety of serial manufacturing that allowed for them to make films quickly and systematically. The automotive industry would popularize it; hollywood wanted to sustain an ongoing slate of films that would provide a comforting familiarity to customers.
