Culture and Cinema

3/31/2020

everything is on google classroom

https://classroom.google.com/c/NzI4ODU0Njg4MDBa/m/NzM4ODYwMjUyMzRa/details

 

 

 

Hey guys! Due to the school closing for 10 days, please send and share your google slides with me no later than March 27th.)  ALSO this would be a great time for all those who are missing work to do it and send it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For now this is what I can tell you, the google slide presentation may be the last assignment of the quarter, so do well and have fun with it.

 

At this time if we were in school, I would be teaching about television in the 1950’s which was cool but took away from film, then we would be getting into a few 1950’s films from Japan.  The 1960’s consisted of change within the film industry. Below is the material we would cover and questions we would ask then later answer. I recommend you to check some of the stuff out because it’s interesting. But the only real task I have for you is to watch movies(at home) and watch movies with people you love and discuss those movies to take off the stress of this extremely strange and chaotic yet very interesting time.

Don’t panic

 

 

 

 

• Objective 2: The 1950s were the age of widescreen and the fear of the outsider.  

1.  How did television change the landscape of film?  
2. How was the fear of communism and the unknown showcased in horror films?
3. What can we learn from Tokyo Story? 

Showing: 

• I Love Lucy, (pilot) (1951-1957)
• Tokyo Story, Yasijuro Ozu, Drama (1953) 
• clip from Godzilla, Ishiro Honda, Drama/fantasy(1954) https://archive.org/details/01Godzilla_201811

Assignment 5:  write a 1 page film analysis and answer questions above.

• Objective 3: The 1960s were a time of great change and growth for American Film.  POV and Narrative. Various shots, cuts and editing. 

1. What did the introduction of the “slasher” film do to change Horror films?  
2. How did the low-budget film affect the product created by Hollywood?
3. How did the changing culture of American in the 1960s influence the aesthetic of American film?
4. Why do you think the “Western” was such a big hit?

Showings: 

• Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, Mystery/thrasher (1960)
• La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini, Drama/comedy-drama (1961)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fantasy/sci-fi (1968) 
• clips: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leon, Western(1966)

 

 

 

 

week 3/10

-preparing for presentations

-films and their film studios

presentations 17 and 19th of March 

Test 3/23 on everything from 1895-1940s (more info below)

 

 

week of 3/3/2020 (scroll below for all information covered in class)

“the big 5 movie studios”

http://www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/film/STUDIOS.htm

 

***March 17- 19th- presentation 7-10 minutes

Choose any film and tell me…(my example- In the Mood for Love)

 

…release year- 2000-Hong Kong

..who/which studio produced the film (Wong Kar-wai)

..who directed the film (Wong Kar-wai)

..who wrote the screenplay-(Wong-Kar-wai)

…who was the director of photography(cinematographer) (Christopher Doyle)

…the stars(Maggie Cheung) (Tony Leung)

…the company that marketed the film- distribution (Focus Features LLC)

…the genre( Romance/drama)

…a motif(symbol/image/action that has a symbolic significance) (glances at one another, slow walking away)

…a theme-what the film could really be about? (infidelity vs choice to remain loyal)

 

Use google slides to make a presentation with all above information included

And only 1 scene that you felt was important

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypY9OaKCfRU

Loneliness- both experiencing the same thing

Dark lighting, music that makes us contemplate and wonder about truth and their realities maybe even our own past experiences?

***March 23 – Test- open notes/book 100 points 

On everything from 1890s-1940s

8 short answer

8 matching

18 multiple choice

1 long answer

1 bonus

• Unit I: The Birth of Film (1890-1940) 
• Objective 1: The creation of film as art to an established entertainment industry

1. How did film, as a medium, begin?  
2. How did film grow in popularity?  
3. What did people like most about film?
4. How did film look throughout the world?
5. Who were some of the most important people to the new film industry?

Showings:

Auguste and Louis Lumière First films(1895)- origin of cinema  

films before 1920

https://whitecitycinema.com/2010/03/01/top-25-films-made-before-1920/

• A Walk through NYC, (NYC 1911)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXRnGwbrnOo

• Edwin S.Porter, USA https://archive.org/details/TheGreatTrainRobbery1903SilentFilm

 

Objective 2: Film as a storytelling device. Mise-en-scene and the Aesthetics of Meaning/Early Silent Film Era 

1. How did silent films tell stories without sound? Mise-en-scene – “placing on stage”

http://www.elementsofcinema.com/directing/mise-en-scene-in-films/

1. How did film styles (German Expressionism) alter the scenery of film? 
2. Did the purpose of film change? 
3. What political and social factors affected film throughout the world from 1915-late 1920s? Please elaborate. 

Showings:

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, Mystery/ Thriller, (1920)(GE)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP0KB2XC29o

• clip from Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau, Fantasy, ( 1922) (GE)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3lizKN5aNc&t=154s

• clip from Metropolis, Fritz Lang, Drama/ Sci-fi, (1927) (GE)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcReykfvqi4

• clip from The Circus, Charlie Chaplin, Romance/Comedy (1928) (UK)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G09dfRrUxUM

• Within Our Gates, Oscar Micheaux, Classic/drama (1920) USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ed4k4ZoBQ

https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-oscar-micheaux/

The General, Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, USA 1927

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-general-1926

 

Objective 3: Animation, sound, and color cemented film as a complete storytelling medium.

1. How did the addition of sound change film forever?  
2. How did color breathe new life into film and contribute to its artistry?

Showing: 

• Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie, 1928 Walt Disney USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4

• clip: King Kong, Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933 USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuRQH_hLcTw

• clip: Little Women, George Cukor, 1933, USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrem2ksyz-M

• clip: A Star is Born, William A. Wellman, 1937, USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHawzGr05CQ

• clip: The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming 1939, USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KSiyaqnZYs
• clip: Gone with the Wind, Victor Fleming, 1939, USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KSiyaqnZYs

 

• Unit II: The Golden Era (1940-1969)  
• Objective 1: The 1940s took film to exciting new places.  Plot, Story, Time

1. How did the rapid-fire dialogue of the 1940s contribute to film’s effectiveness?  
2. How did film noir contribute to film’s effectiveness?  
3. How did American optimism contribute to film in the 1940s?  

https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/filmnoir.html

https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Navigation/Community/Arcadia-and-THP-Blog/June-2019/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Hollywood%E2%80%99s-Golden-Age

Showing: 

• Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, Film noir, (1941) 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6ENtQP13LjnRi1fNXF1QjFwZlU/view

• It’s a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra, Drama/fantasy, (1946)

reading in book (roles within film industry)

“the big 5 movie studios”

http://www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/film/STUDIOS.htm

roles within film industry