September 3‚ 2014 Lecture 1 Professor Barry Keith Grant Terrance McDonald – Course Co-Ordinator Cinema – Industry‚ a social institution‚ entertainment‚ an art form. September 5‚ 2014 Lecture 2 Becoming a Film Student An introduction to screening and viewing practices September 10‚ 2014 Lecture 3 The Beginnings of Cinema Peter Mark Roget (1769-1879) Persistence of Vision Thaumatrope (1824) Animation Cel Zoetrope Invented in 1833 by British Mathematician William George Horner Panorama
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Pierrot le fou is a French-Italian film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and released in 1965. The film is about the story of Ferdinand Griffon‚ a man who lives a wealthy life in Paris. He is married to a rich Italian woman who gave him a child. Unsatisfied with his Parisian life‚ he decides to flee away with Marianne‚ an ex-girlfriend of his‚ whom he meets again by chance‚ while she has been called on to baby-sit his child. Ferdinand decides to give a radical turn to his life pursuing a criminal career
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book and also‚ though unreasonable‚ Arthur has grabbed a book in his pocket while doing the crime… Not only the motif‚ Godard also using various quotes and references to express the connection between his film and literature. First of all‚ this film was based on a novel set in Los Angeles called Fool’s Gold written by American author Dolores Hitchens (1907-1973). Godard borrowed the main character’s setting and changed the story into Paris. “Are you afraid? People haven’t got X-ray eyes‚ you
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A road trip‚ an ex-girlfriend‚ a recently unemployed man‚ a dead body‚ and experimental sound design. What’s going on in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 film Pierrot le Fou? Godard is known for his contribution to the French film “New Wave” movement‚ and this film is no different. Through the use of a nontraditional narrative style‚ in combination with an experimental film form‚ it is insanely difficult to keep this plot straight. Then again‚ what is a plot? Does the plot even matter? In Pierrot le Fou it
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This essay will take an in-depth look at the history of Hollywood during the late 60s and early 70s. This period of time is considered to have been a renaissance for American cinema‚ and was titled the ‘New Hollywood’ by cotemporary critics of the time. In order to understand the changes that Hollywood went through the late ‘60s‚ you first have to examine the preceding era of Hollywood filmmaking during the 30s and 40s. This was a period that is commonly referred to as Hollywood’s Golden Age; when
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Student name : Muna Abdi Student Number : 1241606 Developments in Editing Techniques Student name : Muna Abdi Student Number : 1241606 Lecturers Name: Anthea Kennedy Unit 31: Development and Techniques of Film and Video Editing Lecturers Name: Anthea Kennedy Unit 31: Development and Techniques of Film and Video Editing Student name : Muna Abdi Student Number : 1241606 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Early cinema/
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DEVELOPMENT OF FILM Birth of Film 1878 | - 1st Motion Picture created by Eadweard Muybridge on a farm in California- Photographed a horse in fast motion using a series of 12 stereoscopic Cameras (00:51 to 00:58 - Birth of Cinema video) | 1888 | - 1st celluloid film shot by Louis Aime Augustin using single lens camera in Yorkshire‚ Great Britain called “Roundhay Garden Scene” (01:07 - 01:10 - Birth of Cinema video) | 1894 | - Thomas Edison and Whilliam Dickson invented the Kinetoscope
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Language‚ Memory and Identity in the Discourse of the Immigrant: A Dialogue Between Marlene Nourbese Philip and Ana Miranda Daniela Cordeiro Soares Silva Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais‚ Brasil Diaspora women are caught between patriarchies‚ ambiguous past‚ and future. They connect and disconnect‚ forget and remember‚ in complex‚ strategic ways. James Clifford Marlene Nourbese Philip and Ana Miranda are two contemporary authors writing from two different contexts. Philip‚ an immigrant
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Union impact on the effective adoption of High Performance Work Practices Please cite this article as: Gill‚ C. (2009) Union impact on the effective adoption of High Performance Work Practices‚ Human Resource Management Review‚ 19‚ 39-50. Dr. Carol Gill Program Director - Organizational Leadership Melbourne Business School Melbourne University Carlton‚ Victoria 3053‚ Australia Phone +61 3 9349 8452 Facsimile +61 3 9349 8404 Email: c.gill@mbs.edu Abstract This paper examines the literature
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’s Hollywood‚ USA: Duke University Press. Cook‚ P and Bernink‚ M [eds]. (1999)‚ The Cinema Book: Second Edition‚ London: British Film Institute. Friedman‚ L. (1997)‚ The Cinema of Martin Scorsese‚ Oxford: Roundhouse Publishing Ltd. Godard‚ J. (1972)‚ Godard on Godard‚ London: Secker and Warburg. Hill‚ J and Church-Gibson‚ P [eds]. (1998)‚ The Oxford Guide to Film Studies‚ Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hillier‚ J and Wollen‚ P [eds]. (1996)‚ Howard Hawks: American Artist‚ London: British Film Institute
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