MDST 3205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Third Cinema, Male Gaze, Semiotics
12 Mar 2018
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Winner of both the academy award for best foreign-language film and the cannes film. Brings the ancient greek myth of orpheus and eurydice to the twentieth century madness of carnival in rio de janeiro. Centers on characters that live in favelas. Romanticization of the women in the film in the way that they sway/dance. Symbolizes the narrative arch of the film. The small part is corresponding of the large part. Evaluating film as an evolving language where signification happens from within. Evaluating the symbolism of the kite using past meanings of kite in culture. Formalism: concerned with form and technical elements of film. We use ideological formalism when we talk about gender. Creates a power structure that is reinforced through the structure that film is created in. Rewards the unequal values and pleasures that we already have. Ideological formalism: e. g. , classical hollywood cinema or institutional mode of representation: making film watching pleasant.
