CCS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Soviet Montage Theory, Kinetoscope, French New Wave
1 Jul 2018
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Chapter 10: Film History
basic approaches to studying film history
othe aesthetic approach (masterpiece approach/great man approach)
seeks to evaluate individual movies and/or directors using criteria that assess
their artistic significance and influence
historians will first define their criteria of artistic excellence and then ask:
What are the significant works of the cinematic art?
Who are the significant directors?
Why are these movies and these directors important?
primarily interested in movies that are not only works of arts but also widely
acknowledged masterpieces
include the auteur theory, which holds that great movies are the work of a
single creative mind
othe technological approach
examine the circumstances surrounding the development of each technological
advance as well as subsequent improvements
pose questions such as:
When was each invention made?
Under what circumstances, including aesthetic, economic, and social,
was it made?
Was it a totally new idea or one linked to the existing state of
technology?
What were the consequences for directors, studios, directors,
exhibitors, and audiences?
historians show us how the production of movies has changed and can also
evaluate whether that change was significant or transitory
this approach cuts across artists, studios, movements, and genres to focus on
the interaction of technology with aesthetics, modes of production, and economic
factors
othe economic approach
historians help us to understand how and why the studio system was founded,
how it adapted to changing conditions, and how and why different studios took
different approaches to producing different movies, how these movies have been
distributed and exhibited, and what effect this had on film history
they study how and why the independent system of production superseded the
studio system and what effect this has had on production, distribution, and exhibition
also concerned with management and organization, accounting and marketing
practices, and censorship and the rating system
try to place significant movies within the nation's economy as well as within the
output of the industry in general and the producing studio in particular
othe social history approach
society and culture influence movies and vice versa
movies serve as primary sources for studying society
questions:
Who made the movies and why?
Who saw the films, how and why?
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Document Summary
Photography - literally means writing with light, and technically means the static representation or reproduction of light. Camera obscura - latin for "dark chamber" Negative - negative photographic image on transparent material that makes possible the reproduction of the image. Series photography - records the phases of an action. Revolver photographique - (chronophotographic gun) a cylinder-shaped camera that creates exposures automatically, at short intervals, on different segments of a revolving plate. Zoopraxiscope - a version of the magic lantern, with a revolving disc that had his photographs arranged around the center. Fusil photographique - (another form of the chronophotographic gun) a single, portable camera capable of taking 12 continuous images. Black maria - a crude, hot, and cramped shack where thomas edison"s staff made their movies, the first motion-picture "studio" 1908-1927: origins of the classical hollywood style - the silent period. 1927-1947: classical hollywood style in hollywood"s golden age. 1947-present: new cinemas in great britain, europe, and asia.
