COMM ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: American Movie, Oligopoly, Studio System
4 Sep 2016
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Papyrus: portable, laws could be spread, more widespread civilization. Ex: monica lewinsky recorded impeachment of president. Drunk picture on facebook, employer seeing it. Provides us with vivid media memories: ex: life is like a box of chocolates . Provides us with giant mirror that reflects values, cultural ideas, and emotions. Appears through our emotions: fear, love, violence. Influences concepts of reality: ex: how to propose to someone. Visual image retained on retina for a second after it appears persistence of vision: allows still images to flow together and create illusion of motion like cartoon books. Hint subject matter of film: picture realism realist picture with emphasis on ?, ex: niagara falls, then people got ideas to tell stories. Age of griffith : 1903 the great train robbery. 10-minute-long told story: 1906-1916 first featured length films. Film was known as a unique means of expression: griffith birth of nation :
