HOLLYWOOD ON HOLLYWOOD - MA Programme, Kultur - Fall Term 2007-2008

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HOLLYWOOD ON HOLLYWOOD - MA Programme, Kultur

- Fall Term 2007-2008 - Course Leader (CL) Dr. ALAN TAYLOR (Oxon)



Today’s Audience…? Berlin/J.F.K.-I, F.U locals? Familiar faces? Students, and…? ECTS EU colleagues? BA into MA…eh…? American and Film Studies…eh…?



The J.F.K-I. FU Berlin



WEEK: ONE Welcome to a New Academic Year

& Introduction

1. Coverage2. Course Leader3. Working Procedures 4. & Expectations



HW on HW Coverage

1917-1928: Pioneers, Silents 1928-1939: The Classic Period 1946-1960: Age of Struggle 1960-1969: Dis-illusion 1969-1980: The New Hollywood 1980-2000: Corporate Hollywood

Core Texts: Bordwell, The Classic Hollywood Cinema, 1991



20th Century U.S.A. Industrial Context

“Mass production is the focusing upon a manufacturing product of the principles of power, accuracy, economy, system, continuity and speed…and the normal result is the productive organization that delivers in quantities a useful commodity of standard material, workmanship and design at a minimum cost”.

Henry Ford, in Bordwell, 1991. p. 91



Hollywood: Art & Commerce

“Efficiency experts trained in other industries are usually baffled when they try to fit the making of a movie to their standard rules.

The fact is, a movie is essentially a hand-craft operation, a one-of-a-kind custom job – but it must be made on the factory basis, with production-line economics,

if we’re to hold the price down within reach of most of the people.

The job is to do this without losing the picture’s individuality”.

Dore Schary, MGM Producer, 1950



TIME

PROCESSCOST

20th & 21st Century Project Management

• H. Gannt, 1917

• F. Taylor

• H. FordQ



Course Balance: Text & Context

INDUSTRYDEVELOPMENT

1919 – 2007OrganisationCensorship

TechnologiesAudiences

MATERIALANALYSIS

SequenceStyleGenre

NarrativeFilm Theories



Shared Viewing Texts

The Bad and the Beautiful, 1953 The Player, 1992



Production Processes



Course Leader Profile



Representative, Germany: Cinemasports

New York, Sofia, Frankfurt/Main,

London, San Francisco, Detroit,

Vancouver, Moscow, Belfast,

Berlin, Los Angeles, Paris, Mainz…



CL: Book Author,2005 & 2007: Peter Lang Frankfurt /New York



Invited Workshop Leader: Teaching the Teachers….

Media Education Across the CurriculumEire, Estonia, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Cyprus, Turkey, Italy

EU/Kulturring, e. V, Berlin - April 2007

W: http://www.mediaeducation.org



Course Leader (CL)

TEACHING: 1991-2008

UK: Teacher, Lecturer & Curriculum Manager Film Studies, Media Production, Anglo-American Literature

Germany: Guest Lecturer 2000-2008 - J.F.K, Institute, FU Berlin - Filmwissenschaft, Mainz University

Bulgaria: Guest Lecturer 2004, New Bulgarian University 2008, St. Kliment, Sofia University



CL Qualifications

BA joint hons American Studies & English Literature The University of Keele

Diploma/MA The London Film School

PGCE - The Department of Education, The University of Oxford

MA - Media Education IOE, University of London

PhD - Cinema Studies Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz



Questions?

Who…? What…? When…? How…? Why…? Beach………?



Student Credits, 1

All students / Attendance & Contributions

- 80% plus attendance & - 2 short essays (500-800 words each)

Essay 1. A film sequence as located on the course webpageEssay 2. A short essay – from a menu of three options - TBA

Research Paper (RP) & Sprechstundes… - Inspired by Conference Subjects 2007/2008 - One page Abstract Draft to CL - 20 pages / 5,000-5,500 words: PDF & print copy

See: JFK-I Page: http://kinowords.edublogs.org



Student Credits, 2

Research Papers, Samples Spring/Summer 2007, from:

International Symposium on Media & Politics, Ege University

City in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image, Liverpool, UK

European Cultural Studies Conference, Sweden Perspectives and Challenges for Cinema and Media Studies,

Vienna Shifting Landscapes of Film and Media…Istanbul 20 Years of Propaganda?…?????????? Media Events, Globalization and Cultural Change, Bremen



EXPECTATIONS for ALL WRITTEN WORK

1. All Margins are uniformly set at 2.52. The body of the text will be blocked to the right margin3. Gap Lines are set at 1.54. Fonts are Times New Roman, Size 125. All pages are numbered, bottom right6. Key details are included on the HEADER and FOOTER7. Quotes are laced into the text. Over three lines they are granted their

own central column.8. Word count: 4 sides = 1,000 words so the RP = 5,000 -5,500 words.

FOR MORE DETAILS SEE PDF ON COURSE WEBSITE (CWS)



ACT:

Applied Critical

Thinking



Film Industry – The 21st Century Paradigm?

“It’s the edge that knows more than the middle”

Gary Hamel, Guru & Author:

“The Future of Management”, 2007



…Vaya con dios

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HOLLYWOOD ON HOLLYWOOD - MA Programme, Kultur - Fall Term 2007-2008

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