COMM 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Todd Haynes, Douglas Sirk, Mira Nair
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Reading: film art, 303-325, miriam hansen, "the mass production of the senses: classical. Cinema as vernacular modernism" (cv, p. 325) (suggested re-reading: elsaesser, "tales of. Sound and fury: observations on the family melodrama" (cv)) Screening: far from heaven (todd haynes, us, 2002) Film style is the selection from among all the available choices in film form which result in a unique film. We can also speak of the style of a specific director, even of a specific national cinema, or era, or genre, studio, such as the style of director mira nair, or the style of the. Chinese fifth generation directors, or the style of warner bros. gangster films in the 1930"s or gainsborough studio melodramas in the u. k. in the 1940"s. Far from heaven, like many melodramas, is a movie that is highly self-conscious about its style. Haynes limits his script to patterns of speaking that were characteristic of the 1950"s, when the film is set.
