films. However‚ despite what Geldzahler suggested as abandonment of life in order to pursue the themes of death and mortality‚ Warhol never abandoned the subject of life. In fact‚ within his works lies a concern for life‚ which Andre Bazin calls a “mummy complex.” Bazin states in his seminal essay‚ “The Ontology of the
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The Battleship Potemkin (Segei Eisenstein‚ 1925‚ USSR)‚ an attempt to record the historical 1905 mutiny upon the Russian Naval ship Potemkin‚ is renowned for its application of the Soviet Montage technique; A methodology pioneered by Eisenstein himself. The aim of this brave new cinematic vision was to elicit emotional and intellectual responses from audiences; A dialectic approach to film harking back to the ideals of Karl Marx. This particular strategy toward filmmaking proved incredibly useful
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Name: Dorcas Bamigboye. Student Number: 7781917. Course: FILM 2380. Instructors Name: Jonah Corne Reading Response 2 In the essay The Ontology of the Photographic Image‚ Andrew Bazin argues that film and photography surpass painting as a form of visual art because they in a sense capture time and the moment as it is in the moment i.e. they in a sense freeze time. This argument might have been true at the time this essay was written but this above statement is not true at this time. When a painting
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shows the close relationship. Certain cinematic values were carried over from the silent film to the sound film. However‚ the more important issue is to contrast certain styles and different concepts of cinematographic expression. According to Bazin‚ in the cinema between the years 1920 and 1940‚ there was two opposite trend; directors who followed the path of the “image”‚ and the directors who followed “reality” in their films. Image in here means everything represented on the screen is attributed
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Education 225 Professor Gammill March 7‚ 2014 Part 3: Using Technology to Facilitate and Enhance Classroom Instruction For ages‚ classroom instruction has consisted of textbooks‚ many notebooks and a chalkboard. Pupils were required and responsible for four textbooks and notebooks. Now‚ the face of instruction has changed. Instruction has been transformed from the traditional framework of learning to a more abstract and advanced stage of learning. Because
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles‚ its producer‚ co-author‚ director and star. The picture was Welles’s first feature film. Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories‚ it won an Academy Award for Best Writing by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles. Considered by many critics‚ filmmakers‚ and fans to be the greatest film ever made‚ Citizen Kane was voted the greatest film of all time in five consecutive Sight & Sound polls of critics‚ until it was displaced by Vertigo in
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iconoclasm Many also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era‚ making their radical experiments with editing‚ visual style and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm. Origins of the movement André Bazin‚ the founder of the famous film magazine Cahiers du cinéma‚ was a prominent source of influence for the movement. Prominent pioneers of the movement are François Truffaut‚ Jean-Luc Godard‚ Éric Rohmer‚ Claude Chabrol‚ and Jacques Rivette. Truffaut
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THE FRENCH NEW WAVE LA NOUVELLE VAUGE During the German occupation French cinema thrived‚ this was due to the protection given to it from foreign competition. When the war ended American films flooded into the French market‚ these films were greeted with great enthusiasm‚ as many were curious about all aspects of American culture. The Blums-Byrnes Agreement regulated the flow of foreign films in the French market. This agreement stated that French films could only be shown for 13 weeks
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Bibliography: /b> <br><li>Bazin‚ Andre. Orson Welles. Preface by Jean Cocteau. Paris: Editions Chavane‚ 1950. <br><li>Beja‚ Morris‚ ed. Persepectives on Orson Welles. New York: G. K. Hall‚ 1995 <br><li>Bordwell‚ David. "Citizen Kane." Film comment 7‚ no. 2 (summer 1971)‚ 38-47. Reprinted
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Theory suggests that a director can use the commercial equipment of filmmaking in the same way that an artist uses a paintbrush to paint. Auteur Theory is an avenue for the personal artistic expression of the director. The film theoretician‚ André Bazin‚ explained that‚ “Auteur theory is a way of choosing the personal factor in artistic creation as a standard of reference‚ and then assuming that it continues and even progresses from one film to the next.” The style of art and personal expression
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