Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Run Lola Run, Poetic Realism, Gustave Flaubert
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Objective medium: recorder of effects, faithful to external phenomenal world. Subjective medium: stylized, film as art, expressive of imagination, penetrate into private world. Wizard of oz: objective (kansas) and subjective (oz) Acting often approached as a question of realism: not all films try to achieve it, comedies and fantasy films encourage stylized performance. Violence: fight scenes favour brutal realism, sounds of impact, bloody makeup. Invention of photography in 1826 o: early photography required lengthy exposures, celluloid invented by george eastman in 1889, maltese cross gear used to create intermittent motion of film, two most important firms. Edison manufacturing company in america, owned by thomas a. edison. Developed peep-show machine, the kinetoscope, to display films. Created production company after the lumi res to make films for to individual viewers public projection. Lumi re fr res in france, family firm of louis and auguste lumi re. Saw kinetoscope, created camera that exposed short roll of.