Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Origin Myth, Maltese Cross, Flip Book

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1020E
• Professor: Zoran Maric

Document Summary

Hugo (scorsese, 2011) + a trip to the moon (melies, Trip to the moon fairly far stretched from current movies (style) Was overexangerated due to the lact of sound. No close ups so the exagerations were key. Actors were expected to use the whole body. They were inventing things= as technology changes things change (style) Technology influences what types of films are made. By preventing the decay of the body they were preventing the death. The myth of the train was that they (founding myth of cinema) they ran out of the ciniema because they thought it was coming at them. Were not about naration it was about the amazment of the new media. Did not intend to pull you into the movie but rather to show off (the genral expereince of the modern world) Early cinema revealed the modern era, that was so new to many people.