FILM TV M50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bonnie Blue Flag, Indigenous Music Of North America, Critical Thinking
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Written assignments are all turned in electronically and in hard copy to ta. All lab reports due by noon on dates indicated. Midterm: images for which you identify what is being depicted > definition of terms> short essay. No need to bring textbook to class. Hollywood cinema> purpose for making money> commercial cinema> an experimental film might want you to feel angry, upset. A commercial film wants you to feel good. Convey maximum meaning, with minimal effort for the viewer. Obviousness and pleasure derived by hundreds of choices that we are not meant to see. Choices range from clothing, landscarpes, rooms, people, to the narrative, editing, violence, and sex that a film contains. Illusionist rapture indicates the specific type of pleasure that cinema affords. We experience the world in front of us as if it is real. Stars that are larger than life literally. It"s uncanny to run into stars whose pores we"ve seen.
