Film & Literature

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FILM & LITERATURE

Student: Gligora Ioana

Specialization: roumanian-english

Year: III, group II.


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Structure of the presentation

Introduction: FILM

- a form of art

Body: Comparison between Film and Literature

- arguments and pictures

Conclusion- opinions & test


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Common questions about film:

Is film similar to literature?, Is literature better thanfilm?, Film or Literature? What kind of art is film?

Literature

Film

written words

images


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WHY IS FILM GOOD?

- films entertain us-films allow us to put

away our own lives for a

couple of hours .

- films make us toembrace the life and story

of the characters

- films make us less a

watcher an more aparticipant.

- films create boundaries

and asks questions.


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Film is ART:

PHOTOGRAPHIC ART

-Mean of capturing the reality,

documenting the visible world.

-Invites us to notice details that we

usually overlook in everyday life.

PERFORMING ART

-1910s the STAR system

-charisma: JohnWayne, Marilyn

Monroe, Keanu Reeves.

- camera loves them.


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NARRATIVE ART

- without a good story the movie fails.

PICTORIAL ART

-Is not painting ( frozen in time)

-Is not stage play

-IT IS THREE-DIMENSIONAL

REALITY-The choice of angle, camera

distance, camera movement have

no equivalence in other graphic

arts.

- Describe problems from real life.


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COMPARISON BETWEEN FILM AND LITERATURE

FILM LITERATURE

-Frame

-Shot

-Scene

-Sequence-The thrust is imagistic

-is multi-sensory

communal experience

-An indirect relationshipwith the author

-Word

-Sentence

-Paragraph

-Chapter-The thrust is linguistic.

-is a mono-sensory

private experience

-A direct relationshipwith the author.


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Things in common:FILM = LITERATURE

- ACTION

- IMAGES

- WORDS REPLICATING LIFE

- THEWORD IN LITERATURE AND IMAGE IN FILM ARE

BOTH VISUAL

- BOTH

USE LANGUAGES


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What film draws from other arts?

From novel

From poetry

From music

From painting

Structure, theme, point ofview

Metaphor, symbolism

Rhythm, repetition

Sensitivity, form, visual

texture, color.


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Movies based on books: Rambo

written by David

Morrell. The film

was directed by

Ted Kotcheff.

WillyWonka and the

Chocolate factory

written by Roald Dahl.

The film is directed by

Mel Stuart.


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Lord of the Rings written by

English professor J.R Tolkien. The

film is directed by Peter Jackson.

Harry Potter written by J.K

Rowling.


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Books based on movies

Dead poets society-the script

was written by Tom

Schulman, based on his life at

Academy in Tennessee. Then

appeared the novel written

by N.H Kleinbaum.

The film was produced by Media ProPicture- a roumanian company. It

appeared in 2008 . There is also a

novel written by Stelian Turlea after

the film appeared.


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conclusions

-Literature is a narrative art intent uponcreating images and sounds in the readers

mind and film is obviously literary- an

extension of the older narrative arts.

-The film makes the mind see, to project ontothat inner screen of the brain a moving

picture of objects.

-Film is visual literacy (as opposed to verbal

literacy).

FILM is a branch of literature.

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