CIN201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pearl Hunting, Gene Kelly
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Explore film culture (from the past), content development, etc. Take skills from film intro class and try to think of these questions historically. Challenge the idea that history is just facts, names and dates. , Effort to describe the work of walter benj. , To describe what he was trying to do, she took this image & described. Recover surviving-remnants from past times, fragments that fell to the bottom of the sea and we historians, try to dive down to find them. Film changes in form and meaning overtime, what it is may be different depending when you find it. Tabu (2012), also named tabu. , inspired by the film from. It"s meaning, transforms with the passage of time, You trace the link to the past to understand the present and their relationship. The dialogue between the past and present, that links these two films, Pearl diver: when historians bring historical objects to the present, they are motivated by their present concerns. i)
