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Unit Eight:Movies

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HU300 Art and Humanities

Final Project InformationYour Final Project is to create a virtual time

capsule. A time capsule is a grouping of items for future discovery. For our purposes, we will imagine that our time capsule will be buried at the end of the course and opened 100 years later. The goal of our capsule is to provide an overview of what you believe future generations will need to remember about the twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Though your time capsule is not physical, it will provide the following:

A letter of introduction to tell someone in the future about your day-today life—where you live, where you work, what your family and friends are like.

An example of morality and decision-making in current culture (Unit 3 Discussion) Your definition of happiness (Unit 4 Discussion) Your definition of freedom (Unit 4 Discussion) You will also need to list the following, along with a paragraph detailing why its

inclusion is critical: A significant literary work (poem, short story, or novel) A significant example of art or architecture A significant song or group of songs A significant film A significant item from popular culture (a toy, gadget, fad, etc.)

CONVENTIONS OF FILMConventions are the conditions

accepted by the audience.

Cinematography is the way in which the camera tells the story.


CONVENTIONS OF FILMConventions o establishing shoto close-upo soundo background musico point of view


CONVENTIONS OF FILMConventionso intercuto elongated momento lingering takeo pano dissolve


CONVENTIONS OF FILMConventionso freeze frameso tracking shoto cuto quick cuto flip


Invention

Thomas Edison “peep show” & projector technology


Major Genres: Slapstick ComedyChaplin & the Little Tramp – Gold Rush1925The first international star.

Major Genre: FarceMarx Brothers –

A Night at the Opera 1935

Heroes of the underdog defying the aristocracy.


MAJOR FILM GENRESAnimated Filmo Snow White and the Seven Dwarfso The Little Mermaido Ratatouille


Animation: Beginning of Feature Animations

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1936

Animation: Revival of drawn animation

The Little Mermaid1989

Animation: ModernRatatouille2006Computer animation and taste.

MAJOR FILM GENRESFilm Noiro Cynicism

o Dark tone, lack of cheerfulness


Huston - The Maltese Falcon

1941

Bogart as Sam Spade

MAJOR FILM GENRESRomantic Comedyo Philadelphia StoryoClass difference, dialogue, clash of

mannerso Lost in TranslationoLoneliness, realism, chance meetings


Romantic Comedies

MAJOR FILM GENRESScreen Musicalo Singin’ in the Raino Dirty Dancingo Chicago


Musicals Then and Now

MAJOR FILM GENRESThe Westerno Destry Rides Againo High Noono Butch Cassidy and the Sundance

Kido Dances with Wolves


Western Themes•Good v. Evil•Independence•Civilization v. Frontier•Man v. Nature

MAJOR FILM GENRESHorror and SuspenseoPsycho

Social IssuesoMr. Deeds Goes to TownoIt’s a Wonderful LifeoGrapes of WrathoSullivan’s Travels


MAJOR FILM GENRESDocumentaries & Docudramas Documentaries – a nonfiction film that usually

has a narrator but not a structured storyline.o Titicut Follieso Winged Migrationo Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine,

Fahrenheit 9/11o An Inconvenient Truth


MAJOR FILM GENRESDocumentaries & Docudramas

Docudrama – a nonfiction film that has not only a narrator but characters, either real people or actors, and a story line.

o Ladybird, Ladybird


MAJOR FILM GENRESFictionalized Biographyo The Agony and the Ecstasy

(Michelangelo)o Lust for Life (van Gogh)o Amadeus (Mozart)o La Vie en Rose (Piaf)


MAJOR FILM GENRESAdaptationso The Killers (Hemingway’s “The

Killers”o Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy)o Troy ( The Iliad)


TWO AMERICAN CLASSICSCitizen Kane Casablanca


THE FILM AUTEURAlfred Hitchcocko Shadow of a Doubto The Birdso Psycho

Francis Ford Coppolao The Godfather Trilogyo Apocalypse Now

Martin Scorseseo Mean Streetso Age of Innocenceo The Departed


NOTES ON CRITICAL VIEWINGSome criteria to determine the merit

of a film:o Use of a style unique to cinemao Characters with complex inner liveso Relevance to the timeso Integrityo Avoidance of stereotypeso Gravity of themeo No violations of probability


Your ThoughtsWhat makes a great film?Which films have had the biggest influence in

your life?What are your favorite types of movies?

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