VIC204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Citizen Kane, Andrei Tarkovsky, Tokyo Story
26 Nov 2016
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Questions with respect to the cinematic canon: unique emergence of cinema in a 20th-century context. Compared with other hitchcock films, a greater focus on romance. Versus the novel the film is based on: book (cid:449)ithholds judy"s t(cid:396)ue identity and role in the murder until the absolute end of the book, refocus our attention on other subject matter. Sight and sound list from 1952: a list of older, mostly silent films, few american films; many european, particular era-specific significance of. List from 1962: l"a(cid:448)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tu(cid:396)a: hails the emergence of european art film as a gold standard, citizen kane, greed: seen as exceptional among american cinema. A way for critics to venerate certain films without taking up certain complimentary attitudes towards american cinema in general: eisenstein within the canon: associated with a kind of creative ideal. Emergence of montage theory: veneration of many silent films remains, the same kind of bias against american cinema with calculated exceptions.
