FTT 44235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: British Film Institute, Sean Connery, Free Cinema
13 Sep 2016
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*social realism = the attempt to capture the ordinary and everyday. The main tradition of british film-making since the 1950s. Film is determined by the relationship of the object film and the filming process. Film is not a given but a problematic. Things about film are not just simply there. They are created by the position they are on in the system. Film becomes a message, a form of communicative process, and that process is both interpretive and given. The film is about either an ideological/historical/cultural set of functions implied by the imagery or about the authenticity of what is filmed (filming the very essence of what you"re actually trying to understand in filming terms) The language of film: how you make the picture. Warren buckland simply categorizes these different ways of making films, giving us a checklist. Philosophical problem in film: presence is not a decisive condition of film; therefore, it must be representation that takes priority.
