LIT 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Block Booking, Irony, Counterpoint
Document Summary
Film can offer a lens into history and can also impact culture and history. Certain films are both important and impactful to the culture of a society and to the individual and their ideas about the world. We not only learn and have new experiences while we view a film, we bring our previous experiences and knowledge to the film. There are two key factors which contribute to the way we feel about and perceive any given movie: identification and cognition. Identification is an important factor in the experience in the film viewer: vicarious experience, sympathy, rapport with characters. Cognition employs your current knowledge in order to judge and analyze situations: assumptions/expectations, biases, tracking space/time in the simplest sense, recognizing aesthetic. Musical scores, popular tracks and themes are elements of a film which key you in to the intended mood and emotion of a given scene. Although silent films did not include audio, they were not really silent.
