Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Un Chien Andalou, Citizen Kane, Total Film

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1020E
• Professor: Barbara Bruce

Document Summary

All images no matter how realistic, are artificial. Formalist films o films that deliberately stylize and distort the real world, re-form reality, and use techniques to comment on the subject matter. 1905: german painters influenced by late 19th fragmentation of the individual in this new modern german society century artists see depth, reacted again impressionism, which they thought of as overly romantic and soulless. Responding to dark changes in germany became a film movement post-wwi. The cabinet of dr. caligari is arguably the most famous. Showed that film could be art and abstract representing the world as corrupt and insane. Criticizing young men for going to war without reason, Depicting subjective emotions and responses that blindly following orders events arose in them. Depict distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy through vivid, jarring and dynamic applications of formal elements. Address nature of human sanity in a world of unknown forces. Sets are expressive, filmed on sets in highly stylized manner.