HUMA 3697 Lecture 4: HUMA 3697-Week 4: Car and Movies
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28 may 2015: icon/iconic, chickie run, film discourse (lighting/colour/camera angles/sound/ mise en. Scene/editing: plot/theme, liminal, kustom kulture, crusing, the strip. Talked about old cars in last three classes-talk about where things started from. Icon-a culturally significant person,thing or moment, widely recognized (and usually admired) and whose symbolism is now fixed. When ideas become iconic, they become cultural cliches. The icons meaning can be satirized but the original associate remains. Signify events or ideas of cultural importance. James dean iconography-the young god-red shirt and jeans. The chickie run from rebel without a cause has become iconic. It appears in every car movie (etc. ) that references. 28 may 2015 speed, power and (masculine) competition. Film criticism-what worked and didn"t work with the film, analyze the film and see if the preferred reading is what the director intended. To be critical with what you see on the screen. Have to have critical literacy to see messages in film, particularly hierarchies of power.
