ENGL 277- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 57 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Directors control what appears in the film frame. Same of those shared with theatre: staging, makeup, performance etc. (editing is not part, historical context. German expressionist cinema: modernism and modernity, visual and thematic oppositions. Interpreted to many different ways: classic. Offered many interpretations and they change over time. While they contradict each other, they are not exactly right or wrong, tells us something about then it was made. Between the second and first world war. Uncertainties of future, extreme political bipolarism, anxiety. Fertile moment artistically: german expressionist cinema movement. Highly stylized, allegory, and symbolism rather than realism. Part of the larger artistic movement against realism after wwi. Extreme visual distortions, that reflect an emotional reality. Madness, betrayal, murder, extreme and dark states. The cabinet of dr. caligari 1920 and metropolis are example of expressionist style. Caligari has out of controlled lines, darkness of madness: metropolis while have similarities in tone and subject matter, metropolis was expensive.
