VM100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Jackie Gleason Show, Vittorio De Sica, Kraft Television Theatre
19 Oct 2017
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Be able to identify the following individuals and institutions, including their major contributions either in terms of films, innovations, policy-making, etc. The cinema"s beginnings: eadweard muybridge, lumiere bros, george melies, thomas edison, w. k. l. Dickson: edwin porter, d. w. griffith & role in developing continuity, precursor technologies/discoveries for motion pictures, persistence of vision, the black maria, cinematographe, kinetoscope, kinetograph, nickelodian, motion picture patents company. You should also be able to identify and describe the following terms as well as the historical context in which they belong. Soviet cinema & montage: sergei eisenstein, dziga vertov, lev kuleshov, kuleshov effect, kuleshov experiments, montage definition and differences from continuity editing, non-diagetic insert. Formal devices used in continuity editing: shot-reverse shot, matching action, point of view shot editing. Directors, screenwriters, and stars you will need to know: Technological developments in films that enabled direct cinema. Hollywood major studios: the big five , the little three .
